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Magasco, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Pineland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75968. The Survey maps it on the Pineland North quadrangle.

Magasco within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Magasco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,352 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 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 burning56
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9174
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined381 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasLOWE
4 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 327
30 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9195

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sabine County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magasco in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 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
August 2017Flash FloodMagasco-A section of FM 2866 was impassible due to flooding.
May 2008HailMagasco-Hail fell on Hwy 184.

Every storm recorded in Sabine 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
Pineland2.3 miles10
Strickland Crossing3.7 miles11
Bronson4.8 miles12
McElroy5.7 miles10
Stringtown6.7 miles10
Hemphill8.0 miles11
Yellowpine8.1 miles11
Blackjack8.4 miles10

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 Q122570689The 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 1362067. 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.