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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1887 USGS Mason quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Mason quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Katemcy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mason quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Natural | 24 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SR RANCH FIRE |
| 24 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MASON-MCCULLOCH |
| 24 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID/MCCULLOCH CO/US87S |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10584 US87N/PETERPRAIRIESCHOOLHOUSE |
| 4 August 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 87N/SANDYLN |
| 8 July 2008 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Katemcy | $40,000 | A few roofs were blown off and tree limbs were broken. |
| April 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Katemcy | $8,000 | Brief tornado touchdown in eastern Mason county and demolished a travel trailer. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Katemcy | - | There was a roof to a house was partially blown off. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Katemcy | - | The public reported golf ball size hail in Katemcy. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Katemcy | - | The public reported ping pong ball size hail along U.S. Highway 87 between Mason and Katemcy. |
| March 2016 | Tornado (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 2016 | Hail | Katemcy | - | A trained spotter said golfball size hail lasted for about 15 minutes. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Katemcy | - | As the storm tracked across southwestern rural McCulloch County, the supercell storm crossed into northern Mason County just to the west of Katemcy. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Katemcy | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Katemcy | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Katemcy | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Katemcy | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Katemcy | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Katemcy | - | no account filed |
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 Katemcy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6375929 | 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 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.






