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Lamkin, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76455. The Survey maps it on the Lamkin quadrangle.

Lamkin within Comanche County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

32 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Lamkin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 5,078 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 August 2012Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRIPLE J
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAMKIN
18 July 2008Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUSTIN FIRE
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 610 FIRE
8 June 2006Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCKNEELY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamkin in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2001: 2 hail, 1 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
March 2001HailLamkin-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLamkin-no account filed
January 1995HailLamkin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Siloam4.1 miles14
Hazeldell5.4 miles14
Energy6.9 miles14
Wilson7.5 miles14
Gustine7.5 miles13
Fleming11.1 miles13
Newburg13.9 miles13
Hasse14.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378555. 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.