BlockBefore

Wehdem, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77833. The Survey maps it on the Welcome quadrangle.

Wehdem within Austin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

46 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Wehdem between 2006 and 2020, burning about 202 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3671 FM 109
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSALEM RD
8 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN
14 August 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ GLAZEAR
12 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service290/ NICHOLSON LAKE RD
30 July 2009Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ NORTH HWY 36
3 July 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEISS RD
26 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 332

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wehdem in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWehdem$3,000Measured wind gust caused some damage.
January 2007Flash FloodWehdem-Flooding occurred between Wehdam and Cat Spring and also extended westward towards Industry. The following roads were closed due to flooding: FM 109 at Williams Creek and FM 497 at SH 36 in Kenney.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
New Wehdem2.2 miles10
Kenney3.6 miles10
Bleiblerville5.4 miles10
Sempronius (historical)5.7 miles10
Welcome6.2 miles10
Nelsonville6.6 miles10
Industry9.1 miles9
New Bremen10.2 miles10

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 WehdemAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110664456The 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 1379250. 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.