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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bronson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
83 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7049 |
| 2 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 824 |
| 2 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 828 |
| 16 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7125 |
| 16 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | CORVETTE |
| 16 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macune | $15,000,000 | Numerous 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 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macune | - | One tree uprooted with a trunk snapped off of another tree on FM Road 1992 north of Highway 103. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Macune | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell in the Norwood community. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Macune | - | Ping pong ball size hail fell in the Macune and Norwood communities. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Macune | - | Highway 103 was flooded in several locations south of San Augustine. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Macune | - | FM 705 north of Highway 83 west of the Anthony Harbor community was flooded and closed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macune | - | Trees were blown down on Highway 103. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macune | - | Several trees were blown down along FM 705. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macune | - | Trees were downed along CR. 332 southwest of San Augustine, Texas. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Macune | - | Along County Road 705. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Grave | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Maxey Town | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Norwood | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Chinquapin | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Venable | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Conville | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Goodwin | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rebecca | 6.1 miles | 12 |
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 Q122594512 | The 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.







