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Verhelle, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cuero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77954. It stands on Irish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Verhelle quadrangle.

Verhelle within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

60 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Verhelle between 2005 and 2020, burning about 524 acres in total. 3 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural3
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMICHAEL RATH
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMICHAEL RATH
24 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES WASHINGTON GRASS FIRE
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRIAR RANCH
20 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORDTRAN RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Verhelle: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C W and A IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verhelle in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2017Thunderstorm WindVerhelle$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that damaged the roof of a large barn near Thomaston.
March 2023HailVerhelle-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southeast of Cuero.

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Thomaston3.8 miles7
Arneckeville5.5 miles7
Cuero6.1 miles10
Stratton7.8 miles10
Golly7.8 miles7
Buchel9.5 miles10
Meyersville10.2 miles7
Lindenau10.7 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122598899The 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 1380718. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.