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Comyn, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the De Leon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76444. It stands on Walker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Comyn quadrangle.

Comyn within Comanche County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

177 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Comyn between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,479 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 1496
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPARGER
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service900 HWY 1496
7 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6971 HWY 6
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAINTER1
6 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROSSTIE
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDJ
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEZA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Comyn: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
De Leon Brick PitClayProducer
Unnamed PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comyn in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 2 hail. 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 2015HailComyn$7,000Golf ball sized hail was 2 inches deep on Highway 6 at the Comanche/Erath County line.
April 2003HailComyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Roch3.5 miles13
De Leon4.4 miles12
Downing5.4 miles12
Proctor6.3 miles14
Vandyke8.4 miles13
Hasse9.5 miles14
Rucker9.5 miles12
Gartman View10.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378148. 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.