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Macey, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77859. It stands on Buckhorn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Edge quadrangle.

Macey within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

23 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Macey between 2005 and 2019, burning about 307 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 112
8 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOSR
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15924 E OSR
20 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service18118
17 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18120
16 July 2018Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1940 GRASS FIRE
8 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000018
17 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macey in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 hail. 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
May 2024HailMacey-Half dollar sized hail was reported from mPING.

Every storm recorded in Brazos 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
Kings Highway0.9 miles7
Edge4.4 miles7
Union6.4 miles7
Cottonwood9.1 miles7
Democrat Crossing10.6 miles10
Kurten11.2 miles7
Tabor12.0 miles7
Moore12.8 miles7

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 MaceyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115516806The 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 1380122. 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.