Yarrelton, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Buckholts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76518. The Survey maps it on the Yarrelton quadrangle.

Yarrelton within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Yarrelton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Yarrelton between 2006 and 2020, burning about 568 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
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	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
29 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
23 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAY CUTTING
22 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAY CUTTING
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAY FIRE
14 September 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
8 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	170 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TWEETY
4 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RED RANGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yarrelton in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
April 2016	Flash Flood	Yarrelton	$100,000	Up to 8 inches of rain resulted in flash flooding in Milam County; especially in the western portions of the county along many creeks, streams and rivers. A local newspaper specifically listed road closures at the following locations: FM 1915 at Big Elm Creek and also Little River, FM 1600 at Little River, FM 2269 at Big Elm Creek, FM 285 at North Elm Creek, FM 437 at Little River and also Donahue Creek, FM 487 at San Gabriel River, FM 908 at Brushy Creek, FM 486 at Little River and also Alligator Creek. The newspaper also listed pavement damage at the following locations: FM 1915 at Lipan Creek, FM 1600 at Bear/Little Bear Creek, FM 485 at North Elm Creek. At FM 486 at Alligator Creek, a car was washed off the roadway, and the 2 occupants had to be rescued. Several other rescues were needed according to the county police chief.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Yarrelton	$2,000	Emergency management reported several county roads closed due to flooding and include CR 147, 120, 119, and 132.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Yarrelton	-	A storm chaser video just north of Buckholts indicated 60-70 mph winds and large hail.
April 2016	Flood	Yarrelton	-	Several roads, especially along creeks, streams, and rivers, remained flooded after up to 8 inches of rain fall across mainly the western half of the county.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Elm	2.1 miles	14
South Elm	2.7 miles	14
Marak	3.4 miles	14
Ben Arnold	5.0 miles	7
Splawn	5.4 miles	7
Buckholts	5.9 miles	14
Bowers	6.2 miles	14
Burlington	6.3 miles	7

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 Yarrelton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122594226	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 1380809. 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.