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Warda, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the La Grange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78942. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warda quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Warda within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Warda between 1992 and 2019, burning about 542 acres in total. 9 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHUMAKER
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHUMAKER #2
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJURK FIRE
5 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOAT PLANT
4 September 1997Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warda in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWarda$150,000As the line of thunderstorms associated with the late season cold front moved southward into Fayette County, they produced severe winds that knocked down numerous trees, blew over signs along the road, and damaged roofs of homes and businesses across central Fayette County from north to south. Some parts of the county were without power until the following afternoon.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWarda$50,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 75 mph that blew over an 18-wheeler truck on Hwy 77 near Warda.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWarda$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down some trees and large tree limbs in Warda.
March 2018HailWarda-A thunderstorm produced two inch hail in Warda.
May 2017HailWarda-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in the small community of Warda north of La Grange.
April 2015FloodWarda-An elderly man was working on a fence and may have hit his head and fell into a creek and drown. The creek had flowing water from recent rains.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Nechanitz4.7 miles8
Winchester6.2 miles16
Rabbs Prairie6.4 miles11
Waldeck6.4 miles8
Walhalla8.5 miles8
Prairie Valley8.6 miles11
Plum8.8 miles11
Ledbetter9.3 miles8

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 WardaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7969098The 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 1349482. 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.