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Turnersville, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78610. It lies near Woods Hill. The Survey maps it on the Buda quadrangle.

Turnersville within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

43 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Turnersville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use52 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceESTANCIA
5 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16062234
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHREE G RANCH
13 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000897
22 June 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000786
5 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11-000598

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Turnersville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
South Austin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Travis 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
Carl2.2 miles18
Creedmoor2.5 miles18
Onion Creek3.0 miles18
San Leanna4.2 miles18
Manchaca4.3 miles18
Bluff Springs4.5 miles18
Mustang Ridge5.4 miles18
Maha5.6 miles18

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 TurnersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q121989007The 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 1379183. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.