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Katemcy, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mason East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76825. It stands on Dry Fork Katemcy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Katemcy quadrangle. It stands 1,680 feet above sea level.

Katemcy within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Katemcy between 2005 and 2014, burning about 471 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
29 September 2011Natural24 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSR RANCH FIRE
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMASON-MCCULLOCH
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID/MCCULLOCH CO/US87S
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10584 US87N/PETERPRAIRIESCHOOLHOUSE
4 August 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service87N/SANDYLN
8 July 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Katemcy in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 10 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKatemcy$40,000A few roofs were blown off and tree limbs were broken.
April 2002Tornado (F0)Katemcy$8,000Brief tornado touchdown in eastern Mason county and demolished a travel trailer.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKatemcy-There was a roof to a house was partially blown off.
June 2023HailKatemcy-The public reported golf ball size hail in Katemcy.
May 2021HailKatemcy-The public reported ping pong ball size hail along U.S. Highway 87 between Mason and Katemcy.
March 2016Tornado (EF1)Katemcy-A National Weather Service Damage Assessment Team found evidence of an EF1 Tornado that formed about 3 miles east northeast of Katemcy in northern Mason County and lifted about 2 miles north northwest of Fredonia in McCulloch County. The tornado mainly damaged a grove of trees snapping many tree trunks about half way down. The tornado also destroyed an outbuilding. Winds were estimated between 95 to 110 mph.
March 2016HailKatemcy-A trained spotter said golfball size hail lasted for about 15 minutes.
May 2005HailKatemcy-As the storm tracked across southwestern rural McCulloch County, the supercell storm crossed into northern Mason County just to the west of Katemcy.
April 2023HailKatemcy-no account filed
April 2014HailKatemcy-no account filed
April 2014HailKatemcy-no account filed
May 2010HailKatemcy-no account filed
June 2009HailKatemcy-no account filed
June 2009HailKatemcy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Camp Air1.8 miles13
Fredonia7.6 miles13
Grit9.6 miles12
Koockville10.7 miles12
Mason11.4 miles13
Streeter12.1 miles13
Art14.2 miles13
Pontotoc14.5 miles17

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 KatemcyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6375929The 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 1380020. 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.