Wealthy, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Normangee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77871. The Survey maps it on the Hilltop Lakes quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hilltop Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Wealthy between 2005 and 2019, burning about 319 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1940 FIRE |
| 23 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRITZ FIRE |
| 15 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 488 |
| 8 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OSR |
| 3 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4029 |
| 25 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wealthy in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2014 | Hail | Wealthy | $30,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported in the Hilltop Lakes development in southwest Leon County. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wealthy | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in the Hilltop Lakes area. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Wealthy | - | County Road 466 north of OSR remained underwater for several hours after heavy rain fell over the county. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Wealthy | - | County Road 466 north of OSR was underwater after heavy rain fell over the county. |
| March 2014 | Hail | Wealthy | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in the Hilltop Lakes development in southwest Leon County. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Wealthy | - | Penny size hail fell in Hilltop Lake. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normangee | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Hilltop Lakes | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Flynn | 9.2 miles | 7 | |
| Venetia | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cross Roads | 14.1 miles | 9 | |
| Leona | 14.3 miles | 9 | |
| Margie | 14.4 miles | 7 | |
| Spring Seat | 14.7 miles | 7 |
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 Wealthy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21196657 | 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 1370963. 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.



