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Valley Mills, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Valley Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76689. It lies near Thompson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Valley Mills quadrangle. 1,229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Valley Mills within Bosque County

Population over time

2 figures

Valley Mills grew from 1,203 to 1,229 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,203
20201,229+26 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 2014

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas
Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
A 2007 mural, "Wiethorn Family Foods, Valley Mills, Texas, Welcomes You, Founded 1867," by M. Cunningham in Valley Mills, Texas, depicting an earlier time in the Bosque County town
A 2007 mural, "Wiethorn Family Foods, Valley Mills, Texas, Welcomes You, Founded 1867," by M. Cunningham in Valley Mills, Texas, depicting an earlier time in the Bosque County town
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas
Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

168 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Valley Mills between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,389 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning91
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRAILER PARK
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARROW #2
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST MIDDLE BOSQUE@HWY317
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARROW
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service155-17
6 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZWICKEY
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOSTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Mills in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
October 2001Tornado (F1)Valley Mills$30,000The initial touchdown was near the Mosheim community. The tornado moved east northeast for 1.5 miles before dissipating. One mobile home was destroyed, several buildings had roof damage, and trees were uprooted.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindValley Mills$25,000Several homes were damaged and trees and powerlines were blown down.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindValley Mills$15,000Thunderstorms winds damaged the roof of a house and the roof of a barn. A tree was also uprooted.
April 2023HailValley Mills$7,000Golf ball sized hail was reported at Highway 6 and FM 854 west of Valley Mills.
May 2010HailValley Mills$4,000HAM radio operators reported golfball sized hail at Valley Mills High School.
December 2006Tornado (F0)Valley Mills$2,000The National Weather Service in Fort Worth conducted a damage survey and found that a brief tornado formed northwest of Valley Mills and caused damage to trees along County Road 3310.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindValley Mills$1,000Large tree limbs fell onto power lines, causing power outages.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindValley Mills$500A tree was blown down on Highway 6 near Valley Mills.
June 2014HailValley Mills-Penny sized hail was reported near Valley Mills.
February 2001Flash FloodValley Mills-A high water rescue was performed on the Bosque/McLennan county line. A school bus with 4 persons was stranded in high water.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Valley Mills-The second tornado to hit the county touched down 1.5 miles west of Valley Mills and moved east northeast for two miles before dissipating 0.5 miles north of Valley Mills. The damage was confined to trees.
March 1998Tornado (F0)Valley Mills-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindValley Mills-A tree was blown down by strong winds.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindValley Mills-A tree was uprooted by high winds.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindValley Mills-no account filed
May 2003HailValley Mills-no account filed
December 2002HailValley Mills-no account filed
March 2000HailValley Mills-no account filed
May 2000HailValley Mills-no account filed
May 1999HailValley Mills-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodValley Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bosque 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
Rock Springs3.5 miles16
Pendell5.2 miles12
Mosheim7.1 miles12
Cayote7.6 miles15
Greenock10.0 miles16
Clifton10.1 miles12
Crossroad Store11.5 miles12
Womack12.3 miles15

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 Valley MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976039The 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 1376565. 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.