Verdi, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pleasanton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78064. The Survey maps it on the Leming quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leming quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
153 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Verdi between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,728 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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 burning | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM 108 |
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VERDI RD |
| 4 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ADAMS RD 2 |
| 23 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUPE GONZALES #2 |
| 21 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RANDY REED |
| 14 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WITTEN RD |
| 8 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PERSYN FARM |
| 8 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VERDI RD/1784 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verdi in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Lightning | Verdi | $150,000 | Lightning struck a house on County Road 209 in the Serbin area. The house was struck around 1 pm while the residents were away. The house was destroyed. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Verdi | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail along I-37 near Leming. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Verdi | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. East of Pleasanton cars were stalled in water leading to water rescues. Hwy 97 was closed between Pleasanton and Floresville. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Verdi | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding and closed County Road 536 from I-37 to the Wilson County line, FM 1784 north of Verde, and several other roads in the northeast corner of the 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leming | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Black Hill | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Las Gallinas | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Espey | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasanton | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Coughran | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Poteet | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Leal | 9.6 miles | 8 |
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 Verdi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110363012 | 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 1380716. 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.



