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Weldon, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lovelady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75851. It stands on Cemetery Branch. The Survey maps it on the Weldon quadrangle. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Weldon within Houston 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

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Weldon between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,426 acres in total. 7 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 burning17
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2013Fireworks18 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7112
28 September 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2006Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 188
22 August 2018Natural432 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER WEST
22 August 1997Natural130 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2018Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOUSTON 18:43
15 August 2011Natural2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 713
13 August 2009Natural25 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 220

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weldon in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
February 2006Thunderstorm WindWeldon$65,000Trees were down on houses and roofs were blown off some buildings (tractor sheds).
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWeldon-A member of the public reported tree branches down, blocking roads near Weldon.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWeldon-Broadcast media reported structure damage along FM 230 in Houston county.
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Weldon-A funnel cloud was sighted from Eastham Prison to near Weldon. A brief tornado touchdown was observed by a prison employee with swirling dirt below the funnel cloud. There was no damage.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Sorghumville4.1 miles10
Antioch (historical)6.3 miles10
Vistula6.7 miles11
Sand Ridge8.4 miles11
Pearsons Chapel9.1 miles9
Mapleton9.7 miles10
Lovelady9.9 miles9
Austonio11.9 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 WeldonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7980883The 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 1371008. 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.