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Hahn, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Louise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77437. The Survey maps it on the Hahn quadrangle. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Hahn within Wharton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Hahn between 2008 and 2009, burning about 405 acres in total. 1 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service300 CR 370
10 August 2008Debris and open burning300 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7000 FM 1160

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wharton 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
New Taiton3.5 miles8
Jones Creek4.5 miles8
Round Mott4.9 miles8
Taiton (historical)6.5 miles8
El Campo8.9 miles8
Hillje9.6 miles8
Pierce10.8 miles8
Glen Flora11.7 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 HahnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710477The 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 1379876. 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.