Wendt, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Grange West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78945. It stands on Taylor Branch. The Survey maps it on the La Grange West quadrangle.

Wendt within Fayette County

On record in Wendt

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

State Highway 71 Bridge at the Colorado Riverlisted 1996 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS La Grange West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wendt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 317 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
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
7 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PINEY CREEK RD
7 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 26
23 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 24
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 25
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 21
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 20
17 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wendt: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
La Grange Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lagrange Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
La Grange	1.2 miles	11
Rabbs Prairie	4.0 miles	11
Plum	4.1 miles	11
Cozy Corner	4.3 miles	10
Hostyn	4.3 miles	10
Prairie Valley	5.9 miles	11
Joiner	5.9 miles	10
Mullins Prairie	6.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380754. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.