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Karon, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Three Rivers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78071. The Survey maps it on the Oakville quadrangle.

Karon within Live Oak County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Karon between 2006 and 2020, burning about 342 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019143
6 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSERENITY
6 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019103
3 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019100
18 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019113
15 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019111
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD201893
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD201862

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Karon: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Selenium, Molybdenum, Molybdenum, Selenium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kopplin MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Zamzow Mine (IEC)Uranium, Selenium, MolybdenumPast ProducerStratabound
Felder Uranium OperationUraniumProducer
Kopplin PitUraniumPast Producer
Lamprecht MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Marrs-Mclean Pit No 1UraniumPast Producer
Smith Uranium PitUraniumPast Producer
Sulfer Creek OperationUraniumProducer
Zamzow Leaching Plant (Facility)UraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Live Oak County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Karon in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 flash flood. 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
March 2015Flash FloodKaron-Flooding caused portions of Farm to Market Road 1203 to be closed.
April 2010Flash FloodKaron-FM 1596 closed between CR 311 and 332 due to flash flooding of Gamble Gully Creek.

Every storm recorded in Live Oak 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
Ray Point5.2 miles9
Oakville5.7 miles11
La Para8.1 miles9
Three Rivers9.6 miles11
Ike10.1 miles11
George West11.8 miles12
River Creek Acres12.7 miles12
Mikeska13.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378513. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.