Williamson, Texas

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.

• 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
• 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Buda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1988 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Williamson between 2005 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Sunset Valley
• Rollingwood
• Barton Creek
• Kincheonville
• Oak Hill
• Vinson

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamson in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Travis County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1376807. 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.