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Upton, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Smithville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78957. It stands on Reeds Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bastrop quadrangle.

Upton within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

132 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Upton between 1993 and 2018, burning about 579 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural10
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCALLISTER ROAD - 184
27 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 14
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePINE VALLEY LOOP FIRE
22 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRAFTS PRARIE FIRE
22 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upton in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. 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
April 2015HailUpton-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail near County Road 304 southwest of the town of Upton.

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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
Hills Prairie3.1 miles17
Clearview4.4 miles17
Alum Creek4.6 miles17
Togo4.8 miles11
Willman5.4 miles11
Smithville5.6 miles17
Rosanky5.9 miles11
Watterson6.7 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 UptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7899359The 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 1379197. 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.