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.
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
- 1962 USGS Warda quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHUMAKER |
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHUMAKER #2 |
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JURK FIRE |
| 5 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOAT PLANT |
| 4 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 12 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warda | $150,000 | As 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warda | $50,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 75 mph that blew over an 18-wheeler truck on Hwy 77 near Warda. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warda | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down some trees and large tree limbs in Warda. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Warda | - | A thunderstorm produced two inch hail in Warda. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Warda | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in the small community of Warda north of La Grange. |
| April 2015 | Flood | Warda | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nechanitz | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Winchester | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Rabbs Prairie | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Waldeck | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Walhalla | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Prairie Valley | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Plum | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Ledbetter | 9.3 miles | 8 |
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 Warda | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7969098 | 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 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.



