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Willow City, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stonewall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78624. It stands on Knott Branch. The Survey maps it on the Willow City quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the last count. It stands 1,713 feet above sea level.

Willow City within Gillespie County

On record in Willow City

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

43 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Willow City between 2005 and 2018, burning about 3,252 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2

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
16 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROMARA LN
30 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2005Debris and open burning13 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2015Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLOW LOOP
8 July 2012Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD WILLOW RD.
7 July 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie 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 Willow City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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
Althaus MineFeldsparPast ProducerFeldspar

Every working recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this place

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow City in 22 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 17 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
April 2004Thunderstorm WindWillow City$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged roofs of homes and knocked over trees near Willow City. A home weather station recorded wind gusts to 51 knots
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWillow City$100,000As the line of thunderstorms associated with the late season cold front moved southward into Gillespie County, they produced severe winds that knocked over large trees and blew down power lines from Willow City southward to near Stonewall. Damage was also indicated to some roofs and homes, and one trailer east of Fredericksburg was overturned. Winds were estimated by residents of the area as approaching 100 mph.
April 2023HailWillow City-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Willow City.
March 2023HailWillow City-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Willow City.
May 2021HailWillow City-A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail southwest of Willow City.
May 2021HailWillow City-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size south of Willow City.
October 2018Flash FloodWillow City-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing RM 1631 and RM 1323 east of Willow City.
April 2015HailWillow City-Quarter size hail was reportedly covering the ground near Willow City.
April 2014HailWillow City-A thunderstorm produced hail ranging from pea to quarter size which covered the ground in Willow City.
October 2010HailWillow City-A thunderstorm produced marble to quarter size hail near Willow City.
May 2006Flash FloodWillow City-Thunderstorms dropped a general 1 inch rain over the northern part of Gillespie County. Highest totals were near 3 inches between Willow City and Stonewall. Many of the county rural roads were closed due to flash flooding, including SH16 and FM1323.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Willow City-A second Gillespie County tornado was reported by the Sheriff's Department to have struck the community of Willow City near 1910CST. It was about 20 yards wide and was on the ground for less than short-lived and caused minor damage to some trees before lifting and dissipating. It was rated F0 on the Fujita Scale.
April 2014HailWillow City-no account filed
April 2013HailWillow City-no account filed
April 2013HailWillow City-no account filed
April 2006HailWillow City-no account filed
April 2006HailWillow City-no account filed
April 2006HailWillow City-no account filed
May 2006HailWillow City-no account filed
May 2006HailWillow City-no account filed
May 2005HailWillow City-no account filed
May 2005HailWillow City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gillespie 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
Eckert2.1 miles12
Crabapple7.8 miles12
Stonewall11.5 miles13
Cherry Mountain11.8 miles11
Fredericksburg12.5 miles12
Blumenthal12.5 miles13
Rocky Hill13.1 miles11
Hilltop14.2 miles11

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 Willow CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3538540The 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 1380785. 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.