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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.

Village Mills within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

138 since 1992

Regional 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBig Thicket National ParkLEE
6 September 2000Debris and open burning840 acresBig Thicket National ParkTFS 692
5 September 1999Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 215
28 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 630
2 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBig Thicket National ParkFREEDOM FIGHTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2016FloodVillage Mills$100,000Heavy rain from the 9th and 10th pushed the Neches River into flood. Several structures were flooded along the river between Silsbee and Evadale.
January 2012Tornado (EF0)Village Mills$10,000Several 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 1997Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills$5,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills$3,000The 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 2016Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills$2,000Trees were blown down near Wildwood.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills$2,000NWS Storm Survey found a few trees blown down along Highway 69 near Village Mills.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills$1,000Power lines and tree were downed onto a home on Holland Cemetery Road.
February 2013HailVillage Mills$1,000Car and property damage with quarter to nickel sized hail per ham radio operator.
April 2023HailVillage Mills-A report of tennis ball sized hail was received through social media.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills-A mesonet recorded a wind gust of 58 mph in Wildwood.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindVillage Mills-A wind gust of 63 mph was recorded at the Wildwood security gate.
May 2017HailVillage Mills-A picture posted to social media indicated approximately quarter size hail.
June 2016Flash FloodVillage Mills-Heavy rain flooded roadways around Kountze and eastern Hardin County with around 2 feet of water.
June 2016FloodVillage 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 2013HailVillage Mills-A user on social media sent a picture showing hail on the ground ranging from pea to quarter sized.
March 2009HailVillage Mills-The public reported penny size hail in Wildwood.
March 2009HailVillage Mills-The public reported half dollar size hail in Wildwood.
March 1995HailVillage Mills-Golf ball-sized hail was reported by weather spotters.
May 2024HailVillage Mills-no account filed
April 2000HailVillage Mills-no account filed
November 1996HailVillage Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Wildwood3.1 miles13
Honey Island7.2 miles13
Dies7.2 miles13
Lelavale7.7 miles13
Kountze9.6 miles13
Bragg10.2 miles14
Fresenius11.8 miles12
Nona12.4 miles13

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 MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7930674The 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.