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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
132 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 66 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCALLISTER ROAD - 184 |
| 27 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 14 |
| 25 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PINE VALLEY LOOP FIRE |
| 22 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRAFTS PRARIE FIRE |
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Hail | Upton | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail near County Road 304 southwest of the town of Upton. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hills Prairie | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Clearview | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Alum Creek | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Togo | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Willman | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Smithville | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Rosanky | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Watterson | 6.7 miles | 11 |
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 Upton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7899359 | The 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.







