BlockWarrenton, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Round Top census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78954. The Survey maps it on the Round Top quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.
On record in Warrenton
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
William Neese Sr. Homesteadlisted 1975
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Round Top quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Warrenton between 1998 and 2011, burning about 236 acres in total. None 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 39 |
| 3 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 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 |
| 23 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7747 FM 1291 S |
| 13 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 29 |
| 11 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrenton in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warrenton | $25,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 85 mph that caused considerable damage in Warrenton. Several metal siding buildings were destroyed near FM 954 and Hwy 237 and numerous trees were uprooted and snapped near Bauer Rd. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warrenton | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down tree limbs near the intersection of S. Weyand Rd. and Round Top Rd. just west of Round Top. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warrenton | $2,000 | There were trees reported blown down along highway 237 near the town of Warrenton. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warrenton | $500 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down some one inch diameter tree limbs in Round Top. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Warrenton | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Round Top. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Warrenton | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 237 in Warrenton. |
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 Warrenton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7970665 | 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 1349501. 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.