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Macune, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the San Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75972. It stands on Fisher Branch. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.

Macune within San Augustine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Macune between 1992 and 2020, burning about 780 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
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
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7049
2 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 824
2 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 828
16 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7125
16 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCORVETTE
16 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Augustine County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macune in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
February 1998Thunderstorm WindMacune$15,000,000Numerous trees and powerlines were toppled. Literally hundreds of trees were uprooted of snapped. A number of homes and automobiles throughout the area suffered damage. Several chicken houses had their roofs blown off. The Sabine National Forest suffered over 70,000 acres of damage with 5,000 acres completely levelled resulting in 300 million board feet of timber damaged. Six million dollars in damage belongs to property while nine million dollars belongs to timber loss.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMacune-One tree uprooted with a trunk snapped off of another tree on FM Road 1992 north of Highway 103.
May 2025HailMacune-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell in the Norwood community.
May 2025HailMacune-Ping pong ball size hail fell in the Macune and Norwood communities.
May 2021Flash FloodMacune-Highway 103 was flooded in several locations south of San Augustine.
May 2021Flash FloodMacune-FM 705 north of Highway 83 west of the Anthony Harbor community was flooded and closed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMacune-Trees were blown down on Highway 103.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMacune-Several trees were blown down along FM 705.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMacune-Trees were downed along CR. 332 southwest of San Augustine, Texas.
March 2002HailMacune-Along County Road 705.

Every storm recorded in San Augustine 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
Union Grave1.8 miles13
Maxey Town2.7 miles12
Norwood2.9 miles13
Chinquapin3.3 miles12
Venable5.0 miles12
Conville5.3 miles12
Goodwin5.9 miles13
Rebecca6.1 miles12

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 Q122594512The 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 1382218. 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.