Village Mills, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kountze census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77663. It stands on Walker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Village Mills quadrangle. It stands 102 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Kountze quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Village Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
138 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Village Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,741 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 32 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 | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Big Thicket National Park | LEE |
| 6 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 840 acres | Big Thicket National Park | TFS 692 |
| 5 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 215 |
| 28 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 630 |
| 2 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Big Thicket National Park | FREEDOM FIGHTER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Village Mills in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2016 | Flood | Village Mills | $100,000 | Heavy rain from the 9th and 10th pushed the Neches River into flood. Several structures were flooded along the river between Silsbee and Evadale. |
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Village Mills | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down or snapped in half along sections of Post Oak Road, before dissipating on the east side of US Highway 69. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | $3,000 | The COOP Observer for Wildwood reported several trees down in the area with diameters between 8 and 10 inches. The observer also noted that a tree was also struck by lightning. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | $2,000 | Trees were blown down near Wildwood. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | $2,000 | NWS Storm Survey found a few trees blown down along Highway 69 near Village Mills. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | $1,000 | Power lines and tree were downed onto a home on Holland Cemetery Road. |
| February 2013 | Hail | Village Mills | $1,000 | Car and property damage with quarter to nickel sized hail per ham radio operator. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Village Mills | - | A report of tennis ball sized hail was received through social media. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | - | A mesonet recorded a wind gust of 58 mph in Wildwood. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Village Mills | - | A wind gust of 63 mph was recorded at the Wildwood security gate. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Village Mills | - | A picture posted to social media indicated approximately quarter size hail. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Village Mills | - | Heavy rain flooded roadways around Kountze and eastern Hardin County with around 2 feet of water. |
| June 2016 | Flood | Village Mills | - | Heavy rain during the end of May produced flash flooding across areas upstream of B. A. Steinhagen Lake. Even one small earthen dam failed near Colmesneil. This flood wave traveled down the Neches flooding some roadways just east of Silsbee. |
| February 2013 | Hail | Village Mills | - | A user on social media sent a picture showing hail on the ground ranging from pea to quarter sized. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Village Mills | - | The public reported penny size hail in Wildwood. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Village Mills | - | The public reported half dollar size hail in Wildwood. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Village Mills | - | Golf ball-sized hail was reported by weather spotters. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Village Mills | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Village Mills | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Hail | Village Mills | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Village Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7930674 | 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 1370650. 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.





