BlockWrightsboro, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cost-Wrightsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78677. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pilgrim quadrangle. It stands 299 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1920 USGS Smiley quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Pilgrim quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wrightsboro between 2006 and 2010, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAYFEILD ON CR140 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wrightsboro in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Wrightsboro | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 3234 south of Wrightsboro. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrightsboro | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a tree. The downed tree blocked FM 108 southwest of Wrightsboro. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Wrightsboro | - | Thunderstorms over Gonzales, Lavaca and DeWitt Counties produced general 3 to 4 inch totals. Flash flooding closed SH111 in both Gonzales and Lavaca Counties, along with many other rural roads. |
| May 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Wrightsboro | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bebe | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cost | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Schoolland | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Pilgrim | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Monthalia | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Summerville | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Smiley | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Oak Forest | 8.7 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 Wrightsboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8038308 | 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 1376881. 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.