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Vancourt, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Tom Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76955. The Survey maps it on the Vancourt quadrangle. It stands 1,867 feet above sea level.

Vancourt within Tom Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

34 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Vancourt between 2005 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFUCHS FIRE #2
31 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 765
25 August 2010Natural150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 87 SOUTH & FORT MC KAVNETT ROAD
24 August 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service12469 U.S. 87 SOUTH
19 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOXLEY RD AND 87 #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tom Green County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vancourt in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 1995Tornado (F1)Vancourt2 hurt, $250,000no account filed
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Vancourt$50,000The NWS storm survey revealed the tornado destroyed 20 sheep shelters, damaged irrigation equipment, overturned an RV travel trailer and removed tin from a large outbuilding.
May 1995HailVancourt$40,000no account filed
May 1995HailVancourt$15,000no account filed
May 2025HailVancourt-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2024HailVancourt-Law enforcement reported golf ball size hail.
May 2024HailVancourt-Public reported slightly larger than apple size hail 4.5 miles west-southwest of Vancourt.
May 2024HailVancourt-Public reported grapefruit size hail 4.5 miles west-southwest of Vancourt.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Vancourt-Brief touchdown near the Tom Green and Concho County line.
May 1997HailVancourt-Large hail fell between Vancourt and Eola, along the Concho/Tom Green county line.
May 2021HailVancourt-no account filed
June 2019HailVancourt-no account filed
November 2011HailVancourt-no account filed
November 2011HailVancourt-no account filed
March 2007HailVancourt-no account filed
August 2004HailVancourt-no account filed
April 2002HailVancourt-no account filed
May 2002HailVancourt-no account filed
June 2001HailVancourt-no account filed
March 1998HailVancourt-no account filed
May 1995HailVancourt-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindVancourt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tom Green 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
Wall7.2 miles13
Mereta8.1 miles11
Veribest10.2 miles13
Sixmile Crossing12.3 miles13
Mullins Crossing13.5 miles14
Sixteen Mile Crossing13.7 miles14
Seventeen Mile Crossing14.1 miles14
Alvery Junction15.9 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 VancourtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4164148The 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 1380708. 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.