BlockFreemound, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76252. It stands on Rio Branch. The Survey maps it on the Freemound quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1902 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Freemound quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
90 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Freemound between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,605 acres in total. 8 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 burning | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CECIL JONES PIT FIRE |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSSTON HAY BALES |
| 19 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE BY TIRE |
| 19 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2013-156 |
| 19 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BINGHAM RD |
| 16 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SELF RANCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freemound in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freemound | $1,000 | Fire and rescue reported minor damage with approximately 50 MPH thunderstorm wind gusts 5 miles north of Forestburg. |
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.
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 Freemound | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122541957 | 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 1379800. 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.