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Coughran, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pleasanton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78064. It stands on Georgetown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasanton quadrangle.

Coughran within Atascosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

131 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Coughran between 2005 and 2017, burning about 2,204 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM 108
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVERDI RD
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEAL RD
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE #1
25 August 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEAL RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coughran in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 1 flash flood, 1 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 1997Flash FloodCoughran$50,000Roads were closed and under water, mainly over the western part of the county.
April 2015HailCoughran-Penny size hail was reported southeast of Pleasanton by the public.

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
Leal3.5 miles8
Pleasanton3.8 miles9
Black Hill5.9 miles8
McCoy6.8 miles10
Jourdanton7.3 miles9
Verdi7.3 miles9
Leming9.6 miles9
Poteet10.5 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 CoughranAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110362995The 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 1379602. 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.