Wixon Valley, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. It stands on Little Wickson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kurten quadrangle. 228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWixon Valley fell from 254 to 228 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 254 | |
| 2020 | 228 | -26 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Kurten quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
62 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Wixon Valley between 1998 and 2019, burning about 614 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0004997 GRASSBUR BRUSH FIRE |
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0004959 KURTEN HAY FIRE |
| 1 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8282 E SH 21 |
| 7 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0004352 HWY 21 FIRE |
| 4 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16-5081 1179 FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moore | 0.9 miles | 7 | |
| Kurten | 3.4 miles | 7 | |
| Tabor | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Reliance | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Cottonwood | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Steep Hollow | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Boonville | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Bryan | 6.6 miles | 11 |
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 Wixon Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969281 | The 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 1388563. 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.


