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Voth, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Beaumont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77713. It stands on Walker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Voth quadrangle.

Voth within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Voth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,825 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 23 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 burning99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism23
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIETH RD
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/TRAM
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREKINLDE/RIVERBEND
3 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 220
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 211
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/EQUIPMENT/TRAILER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Voth in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
July 2025Flash FloodVoth$1,000Flooding occurred in the Bor-Ley Heights subdivision with at least one home receiving minor flooding.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindVoth$1,000KFDM-TV reported trees blown down on Carpenter Road.
March 2024HailVoth-A photo of half dollar sized hail was receive from near Bevil Oaks.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindVoth-A tree was downed along 7100 Tram Road in Beaumont.
August 2017FloodVoth-Record river stages were observed along Pine Island Bayou and the lower Neches during Harvey. This kept lower sections of Jefferson County flooded into early September which included some river side refineries. The high stream flow in the Neches at Beaumont caused an under water natural gas pipeline to rupture. The river also caused a lot of erosion.
March 2016Flash FloodVoth-Heavy rain resulted in flooded streets around the Beaumont area. All underpasses in the city were flooded and closed. Poorly drained roadways like MLK Boulevard near Lamar University was also flooded.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Bor-ley Heights1.1 miles14
Rosedale Acres1.9 miles14
Mount Evergreen2.2 miles14
Gilburg2.7 miles14
Rosedale3.4 miles14
Bevil Oaks4.0 miles12
Helbig4.4 miles14
Pine Crest5.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1349319. 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.