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King, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Purmela-Levita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It lies near McCluskey Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Purmela quadrangle.

King within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

108 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of King between 2005 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service529
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service528
5 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service65
5 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIERRA VISTA FIRE
4 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOKE RANCH FIRE
4 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
22 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6460 FM 1783

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names King in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindKing$350,000RFD winds were determined to be the cause of damage at a home on Longview Circle that lost part of its roof. The RFD winds could have been near 95 mph.
May 2023HailKing$100,000no account filed
September 2025Flash FloodKing$2,000A social media photo showed CR 142 flooded and impassable near Pidcoke.
May 2008HailKing-no account filed
March 2000HailKing-no account filed
March 2000HailKing-no account filed
October 1996HailKing-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindKing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Slater3.8 miles16
Arnett4.7 miles17
Pearl6.7 miles12
South Purmela6.9 miles17
Pidcoke7.1 miles16
Purmela7.6 miles17
Bee House8.9 miles12
Antelope Crossing9.4 miles15

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 KingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120972612The 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 1380030. 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.