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Winedale, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Round Top census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78954. It stands on Jenny Creek. The Survey maps it on the Round Top quadrangle.

Winedale within Fayette County

On record in Winedale

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

3 surveys from 7 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Winedale between 1998 and 2012, burning about 20 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 39
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 27
17 May 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceM AND S LN
29 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service434 JASTER RD
5 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service435 BYBEE
1 January 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10005 ECKERMANN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winedale in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWinedale$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that damaged a barn and flipped a recreational vehicle off of FM 2714 near Winedale.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Round Top3.3 miles7
Carmine4.9 miles7
Haw Creek (historical)5.8 miles7
Warrenton6.8 miles7
Walhalla7.7 miles8
Roznov7.9 miles11
Waldeck8.2 miles8
Willow Springs8.6 miles9

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 WinedaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8024956The 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 1379284. 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.