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Von Ormy, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the San Antonio South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78073. It stands on Live Oak Slough. The Survey maps it on the Macdona quadrangle. 1,174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Von Ormy within Bexar County

On record in Von Ormy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Von Ormy grew from 1,085 to 1,174 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,085
20201,174+89 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

145 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Von Ormy between 2005 and 2011, burning about 633 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEARSALL RD
4 September 2006Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEVENS RD
12 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSENIOR RD & SOMERSET RD
25 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS. LOOP 1604 W
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceK STREET
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENTON CITY RD & 35 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar 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 Von Ormy: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Fm 1604 Quarry & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
1604 E. Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Medina PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Von Ormy in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 5 tornado, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2002Tornado (F0)Von Ormy$500,000Tornado number one, an F0 on the Fujita Scale, formed near 715 pm at the intersection of Greenwood Road and Gridley Road. It moved toward the southeast for one mile, then dissipated. The path width was 20 yards. It damaged roofs and walls of mobile homes and houses, took large limbs off trees, and showed a great variation in direction in how it tossed the debris. It dissipated at 717 pm.
March 2002Tornado (F0)Von Ormy$500,000Tornado number two, also an F0, formed near 717 pm at the intersection of Jarrett Road and Gridley Road. It also tracked toward the southeast, dissipating after one-half mile. Its path width was also estimated at 20 yards. It damaged roofs of mobile homes and houses, and damaged trees in the area. Debris was again tossed in several directions. This tornado dissipated at 719 pm.
March 2002Tornado (F1)Von Ormy$500,000Tornado number three, an F1 on the Fujita Scale, also formed around 717 pm at the intersection of Ess Road and Jarrett Road. It moved toward the southeast, dissipating after one-half mile. Its path width was estimated at 20 yards. It destroyed a mobile home, damaged others and also damaged trees in the area. This tornado dissipated near 719 pm.
March 2002Tornado (F1)Von Ormy$500,000Tornado number four, another F1, formed 1 mile east of the intersection of Ess road and Jarrett Road around 719 pm. It moved toward the southeast, dissipating after one mile. Its path width was estimated at 50 yards. It struck three mobile homes that had been tied end-to-end and severely damaged all three. It left them twisted into the shape of a letter 'U.' With no other structures in the area, the remainder of its damage was to trees.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindVon Ormy$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that damaged several houses, a silo, and overturned an 18 wheeler truck.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindVon Ormy-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that overturned a large fifth wheel travel trailer.
February 2009HailVon Ormy-A storm chaser reported quarter size hail 3 miles southwest of Lackland AFB.
July 2007Flash FloodVon Ormy-A cluster of thunderstorms stretching from near Pearsall in Frio County across southern Bexar County and northern Atascosa County, through Seguin and Stockdale to Gonzales produced general 2 to 3 inch rain totals and spotty flash flooding problems. Highest rain amounts in Bexar County were 5 inches near St. Hedwig. Numerous roads were closed, including Pinn Road at FM151, Old Seguin Road at Salado Creek, Weidner Road, and O'Connor Road at Lookout.
July 2007Flash FloodVon Ormy-Rainfall between 2 and 3 inches in 2 hours in southwest Bexar County caused flash flooding that closed FM327 and Stuart Road.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Von Ormy-Skywarn-trained Amateur Radio Operators observed a small tornado that dropped into an open area. The tornado was about 20 yards wide and continued over the ground for less than a quarter mile. It caused no damage and was rated F0 on the Fujita Scale.
April 2016HailVon Ormy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bexar 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
Mann Crossing1.5 miles12
Garza Crossing1.7 miles13
Macdona3.5 miles12
Somerset4.4 miles10
Atascosa4.9 miles12
Heafer4.9 miles13
Bexar5.0 miles10
Palo Alto Heights5.5 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 Von OrmyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976134The 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 1370682. 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.