Utley, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Elgin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78602. The Survey maps it on the Utley quadrangle.
On record in Utley
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Lower Elgin Road Bridge at Wilbarger Creeklisted 2017
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 Utley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
202 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Utley between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,497 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 141 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 362 OLD 71 |
| 7 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 719 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNION CHAPEL |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 133 HILLCREST CIRCLE |
| 4 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 310 WILBARGER BEND RD |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SETTLERS TRL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utley in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utley | $100,000 | As the line of thunderstorms associated with the late season cold front moved into Bastrop County, they produced severe winds that blew down scores of trees through the central part of the county. An NWS employee while traveling through Bastrop County also came across a car south of Bastrop that had been blown off the road by the winds. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Utley | - | A thunderstorm produced penny size hail east of Wyldwood. |
| December 2024 | Hail | Utley | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail on Winchester Rd. west of Bastrop. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Utley | - | The Elgin tornado began roughly 9 miles southwest of Elgin near Dry Creek Road and Union Lee Church Road. It moved northeast and crossed into Bastrop County near the end of Ingrid Dr. The tornado moved northeast crossing Upper Elgin River Rd., Balch Rd., Youngs Prairie Rd., and Crooked Hollow Rd. Significant damage was observed through this region to many homes. This included the destruction of multiple mobile homes, significant roof damage to numerous slab homes, two homes having their second story destroyed, numerous large tree limbs, tree trunks, and power poles snapped, barns destroyed, and a large electrical transmission tower toppled. Pockets of high-end EF-2 damage occurred through this region. The tornado continued northeast, crossing Monkey Rd., FM 1704, Hwy 95, and U.S. 290 producing damage to roofs of slab homes, mobile homes, trees, and power poles. Damage through this region was generally rated EF-1. As the tornado reached U.S. 290 it produced significant damage to a metal framed business, buckling the roof purlins and collapsing in the south facing wall. The tornado then rolled an adjacent mobile home into and partially on top of the south facing wall of another metal framed business. Three individuals in the mobile home were injured. Damage to the business and mobile home was on the order of high-end EF-1 to low-end EF-2. As the tornado crossed U.S. 290 a moving pickup truck was rolled onto its side, spun around 360 degrees, and rolled back upright where the driver continued down the road. Several power poles were also damaged along U.S. 290. As the tornado continue northeast a mobile home was completely destroyed off Old McDade Rd. From there the tornado gradually weakened and dissipated roughly 3 miles east-northeast of Elgin, near the intersection of FM 3000 and Mundine Rd. Damage was reported to 109 residences and one business. Of those, 32 residences were classified as major damage and 20 residences and one business were reported as destroyed. Peak wind speed was estimated at 130 mph. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Utley | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Lower Elgin Rd. south of Elgin. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Utley | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in water rescues along FM969. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Utley | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM 969 one half mile north of Utley. |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Utley | - | The thunderstorm line produced a general 1 to 2 inch rain over northern Bastrop County, with up to 4 inches between the towns of McDade and Paige. Flash flooding closed SH95 and FM2336. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Utley | - | Half-dollar-size hail was reported in Utley by a weather observer. As a second areas of thunderstorms moved into the county, quarter-size hail was reported between Elgin and Bastrop. Five minutes later the Elgin Police reported quarter-size hail just south of Elgin. Hail up to softball-size was reported in Paige. At least one car had its windshield knocked out. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyldwood | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Elysium | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Phelan | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Swiftex | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Sayersville | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Shiloh (historical) | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Camp Swift | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Bastrop | 7.5 miles | 17 |
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 Utley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7902905 | 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 1379199. 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.







