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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
131 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 78 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM 108 |
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VERDI RD |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEAL RD |
| 7 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE #1 |
| 25 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEAL RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Coughran | $50,000 | Roads were closed and under water, mainly over the western part of the county. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Coughran | - | Penny size hail was reported southeast of Pleasanton by the public. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leal | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pleasanton | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Black Hill | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| McCoy | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Jourdanton | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Verdi | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Leming | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Poteet | 10.5 miles | 9 |
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 Coughran | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110362995 | 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 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.






