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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.

Frankell within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

36 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 132
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHERDFORD FIRE 207
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERKINS
27 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES FIRE
8 August 2014Natural55 acresTexas A & M Forest Service717 FIRE
25 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTGOMERY
13 August 2012Natural17 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOOK FIRE
12 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARMON RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024HailFrankell-Public report of tennis-ball sized hail in southeast Stephens County, 10 miles north northwest of Ranger, TX.

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
La Casa2.2 miles13
Necessity3.4 miles12
Wayland5.9 miles13
Caddo7.0 miles13
Gunsight9.9 miles13
South Hanlon11.1 miles14
Harpersville11.6 miles13
Breckenridge13.3 miles14

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 Q122552108The 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.