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Kamay, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Electra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76367. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mankins quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Kamay within Wichita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

79 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Kamay between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,294 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning11
Smoking2

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
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOOKS FIRE
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILLIPS
28 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREEVES ROAD
24 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN GREEN
22 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADLEY RANCH
19 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADLEY RANCH ROAD
16 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN WAYNE FIRE
16 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN WAYNE FIRE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wichita County

Storms near this place

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kamay in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 29 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
June 1996LightningKamay$50,000no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindKamay$7,000A few power poles near the Post Office were damaged. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindKamay$3,000Several trees were downed.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindKamay$2,000Carport destroyed.
April 2024HailKamay-MPing report. Time is radar estimated.
May 2006HailKamay-Hail was reported at the intersection of FM258 and FM368.
April 2000HailKamay-Hail covered the ground.
July 1995HailKamay-A severe thunderstorm in Wichita County produced three-quarters inch hail two miles southwest of Kamay.
October 1994HailKamay-Severe thunderstorms developed in the afternoon and produced large hail in Archer and Wichita Counties before moving northward into Oklahoma. Hail as large as tennis balls destroyed vinyl siding, broke windows, and caused considerable roof damage in Iowa Park in Wichita County. The press box at Iowa Park High School was also destroyed and two large trees were downed by strong winds estimated at 60 mph.
October 1994HailKamay-Severe thunderstorms developed in the afternoon and produced large hail in Archer and Wichita Counties before moving northward into Oklahoma. Hail as large as tennis balls destroyed vinyl siding, broke windows, and caused considerable roof damage in Iowa Park in Wichita County. The press box at Iowa Park High School was also destroyed and two large trees were downed by strong winds estimated at 60 mph.
June 2023HailKamay-no account filed
May 2014HailKamay-no account filed
May 2014HailKamay-no account filed
May 2014HailKamay-no account filed
May 2012HailKamay-no account filed
May 2012HailKamay-no account filed
August 2009HailKamay-no account filed
April 2008HailKamay-no account filed
April 2008HailKamay-no account filed
April 2008HailKamay-no account filed
April 2008HailKamay-no account filed
May 2006HailKamay-no account filed
June 2005HailKamay-no account filed
June 2004HailKamay-no account filed
April 2002HailKamay-no account filed
April 2002HailKamay-no account filed
April 2001HailKamay-no account filed
May 2000HailKamay-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindKamay-no account filed
April 1996HailKamay-no account filed
June 1995HailKamay-no account filed
June 1995HailKamay-no account filed
May 1993Tornado (F0)Kamay-no account filed
May 1993HailKamay-no account filed
May 1993HailKamay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wichita 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
Kadane Corner1.6 miles7
Valley View2.6 miles7
Fowlkes9.5 miles10
Iowa Park9.8 miles11
Allendale11.4 miles10
Pleasant Valley12.9 miles9
Electra13.2 miles12
Bacon16.8 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 KamayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6356201The 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 1360490. 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.