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Walburg, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jarrell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78626. The Survey maps it on the Weir quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Walburg within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

34 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Walburg between 2005 and 2018, burning about 301 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service500 CR 314
6 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 324
4 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1100 CR 237
4 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 237
31 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service630 CR 234
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5501 N IH 35
27 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4100 N IH 35 NB
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDY HILL/ JARRELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walburg in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2021HailWalburg-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Walburg.
January 2017Tornado (EF0)Walburg-A tornado formed near FM 1105, roughly 1 mile south of FM 972 and Walburg. The tornado tracked north for just over one mile, damaging 4 homes and 1 business. The most significant damage occurred at a business where a large section of the metal roof was taken off. Minor roof and shingle damage, as well as damage to vegetation, occurred at several homes. The tornado dissipated near FM 972 in Walburg. The peak wind was estimated at 80 mph.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindWalburg-As the severe thunderstorms moved southeastward across Williamson County, they dropped one inch diameter hail and produced wind gusts that damaged the roofs of barns, flattened outbuildings and destroyed a mobile home in the Walburg area.
April 2006HailWalburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Theon2.0 miles12
New Corn Hill2.3 miles12
Keelersville3.3 miles17
Mozo4.3 miles17
Weir4.4 miles17
Berrys Creek4.5 miles20
Sonterra4.7 miles12
Corn Hill5.2 miles12

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 WalburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711400The 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 1370743. 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.