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Westhoff, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Westhoff-Arneckville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77994. The Survey maps it on the Westhoff quadrangle. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Westhoff within DeWitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

42 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Westhoff between 2006 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10212 FM 1681
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKENNETH SCHOENFIELD
26 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Westhoff: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thomas Uranium PitUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westhoff in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Thunderstorm WindWesthoff$20,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWesthoff$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that ripped the roof off a metal storage building and wrapped it around a tree in Westhoff.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWesthoff-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. The report from the Westoff Fire Department was relayed to the NWS by the DeWitt County emergency manager.
February 2008HailWesthoff-The DeWitt County sheriff's office reported nickel size hail.
July 2007Flash FloodWesthoff-From 3 to 4 inches of rain fell southeast of Westhoff in the early evening, closing US87 and FM240 due to high water.
July 2007Flash FloodWesthoff-Generally from 2 to 3 inches of rain fell in the early morning hours. Highest totals were 4 inches near Hochheim. US77 and US183 were closed due to flash flooding near Hochheim.
July 2007Flash FloodWesthoff-Thunderstorms over southern Gonzales, northern Lavaca and northern DeWitt Counties produced general 2 to 3 inch rain totals with up to 4 inches near Westhoff. FM240 and US87 were closed due to flash flooding.
March 2007FloodWesthoff-Sandies Creek near Westhoff crested at 12.08 ft at 0800 CST on March 26, where flood stage is 21 ft. This was the 5th highest crest on record.
March 2005Flash FloodWesthoff-Thunderstorms produced general 2 inch rain accumulations over northern DeWitt County and southern Gonzales County. Nearly 3 inches was indicated in the area between Westhoff and Nordheim in DeWitt County and Smiley in Gonzales County. Through much of the evening, flash flooding closed FM108 on both sides of the DeWitt-Gonzales County line, as well as M240 in DeWitt County.
April 2009HailWesthoff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Nopal7.1 miles11
Lindenau7.5 miles10
Kubala Store8.7 miles10
Buchel9.8 miles10
Concrete9.9 miles10
Gruenau10.0 miles10
Old Davy11.3 miles11
Cuero11.9 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 WesthoffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2565392The 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 1377660. 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.

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.