Frankell, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Breckenridge South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76429. The Survey maps it on the La Casa quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1890 USGS Breckenridge quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS La Casa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mineral Wells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
36 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Frankell between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,886 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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 | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 132 |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HERDFORD FIRE 207 |
| 7 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PERKINS |
| 27 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JONES FIRE |
| 8 August 2014 | Natural | 55 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 717 FIRE |
| 25 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MONTGOMERY |
| 13 August 2012 | Natural | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COOK FIRE |
| 12 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HARMON RANCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankell in 1 storm report in 2024: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Frankell | - | Public report of tennis-ball sized hail in southeast Stephens County, 10 miles north northwest of Ranger, TX. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Casa | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Necessity | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Wayland | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Caddo | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Gunsight | 9.9 miles | 13 | |
| South Hanlon | 11.1 miles | 14 | |
| Harpersville | 11.6 miles | 13 | |
| Breckenridge | 13.3 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122552108 | 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 1378323. 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.




