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Machovec, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dumas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79029. The Survey maps it on the Dumas North quadrangle.

Machovec within Moore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

17 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Machovec between 2008 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUTCHER539
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEPECHE MODE 614
12 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUTCHER448
1 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service249
19 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDALMATION FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moore County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Machovec: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Potassium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Potash Company of AmericaPotassiumProducer

Every working recorded in Moore County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Machovec in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2007HailMachovec-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMachovec-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Moore 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
Dumas5.5 miles6
Bryden5.7 miles6
Etter5.8 miles6
Sheerin5.8 miles6
Cactus7.5 miles6
Sheerin Junction7.8 miles6
Stallwitz Lake9.4 miles6
Sunray10.0 miles6

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.

Wikidata item Q122548372The 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 1380123. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.