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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.

Utley within Bastrop County

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

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

202 since 1992

Regional 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 burning141
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service362 OLD 71
7 September 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined719 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNION CHAPEL
5 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service133 HILLCREST CIRCLE
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service310 WILBARGER BEND RD
3 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSETTLERS TRL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Thunderstorm WindUtley$100,000As 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 2025HailUtley-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail east of Wyldwood.
December 2024HailUtley-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail on Winchester Rd. west of Bastrop.
March 2022Tornado (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 2016Flash FloodUtley-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Lower Elgin Rd. south of Elgin.
May 2016Flash FloodUtley-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in water rescues along FM969.
July 2012Flash FloodUtley-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM 969 one half mile north of Utley.
October 2006Flash FloodUtley-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 1993HailUtley-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.

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
Wyldwood4.5 miles17
Elysium5.1 miles18
Phelan5.3 miles16
Swiftex5.9 miles16
Sayersville6.0 miles16
Shiloh (historical)6.5 miles15
Camp Swift6.8 miles16
Bastrop7.5 miles17

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 UtleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7902905The 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.