BlockWaldeck, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Round Top census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78946. It stands on Hellers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nechanitz quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1919 USGS Giddings quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Nechanitz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Waldeck between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,978 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2,700 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUTHER HILL FIRE |
| 18 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 130 |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAYS CRANE |
| 12 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROUND TOP ROAD |
| 30 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GOEHRING ROAD |
| 30 June 2009 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NECHANITZ |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Waldeck | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7961381 | 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 1349355. 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.