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Tivydale, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Harper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78624. It stands on Devils Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roundhead quadrangle. It stands 1,860 feet above sea level.

Tivydale within Gillespie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

73 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Tivydale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 611 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2325 PUMP STATION
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4153 FRIEDRICH RD.
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2093 & WHITE OAK RD.
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUSENER RD
29 September 2020Debris and open burning84 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAGLE
13 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIRACUSA 2 ACRE FIRE
12 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tivydale in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 9 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2012Flash FloodTivydale$500,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. This closed roads south of Tivydale.
March 2023HailTivydale-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail south of Tivydale.
June 2023HailTivydale-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Harper in rural Gillespie County.
May 2020HailTivydale-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail along Harper Hwy. north of Kerrville.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTivydale-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph along Hwy 290 east of Harper.
May 2020HailTivydale-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail along Hwy 290 east of Harper.
May 2016HailTivydale-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail near the intersection of Hwy 290 and Reeh Rd. between Fredericksburg and Harper.
June 2015Flash FloodTivydale-Heavy rain from Tropical storm Bill caused flash flooding closing low water crossings on FM2093 along the Pedernales River near Tivydale.
March 2016HailTivydale-no account filed
March 2016HailTivydale-no account filed
February 2013HailTivydale-no account filed
April 2008HailTivydale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gillespie County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Morris Ranch5.2 miles11
Harper8.4 miles11
Fredericksburg12.2 miles12
Hilltop12.3 miles11
Cherry Mountain13.0 miles11
Doss13.5 miles11
Cain City15.6 miles11
Rocky Hill16.3 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on TivydaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7810458The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379166. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.