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Westville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Groveton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75862. The Survey maps it on the Groveton West quadrangle.

Westville within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Westville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,182 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning40
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 198
3 September 2012Natural84 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8063
17 September 2005Recreation and ceremony25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 103
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 401
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism101 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1995Natural18 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasLTSP AGAIN
8 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westville in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 heavy rain, 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
November 2015Thunderstorm WindWestville-A large tree was downed on FM 1280 to the northwest of Groveton.
June 2013Heavy RainWestville-Heavy rain caused water to run over FM 1280.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Groveton3.6 miles11
Friday4.7 miles10
Saron4.7 miles10
Lacy5.8 miles11
Josserand5.8 miles11
Glendale7.1 miles10
Sumpter (historical)7.6 miles11
Pennington8.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382942. 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.