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Mahl, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75965. The Survey maps it on the Nacogdoches North quadrangle.

Mahl within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Mahl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 904 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 530
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 529
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 489
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNACOGDOCHES 17:34
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 509
4 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7121
4 September 1998Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahl in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 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
March 2026HailMahl-Golf ball size hail reported near the intersection of FM Road 698 and County Road 819 near the Central Heights community.
April 2016Flash FloodMahl-High water over both lanes of Highway 21 West and on Farm to Market Road 225 in and west of Nacogdoches.
May 2014Flash FloodMahl-Water was across several roadways in the city of Nacogdoches, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
North Redland0.7 miles12
Central Heights2.0 miles12
Caro2.1 miles11
Pleasant Hill3.5 miles11
Redfield3.8 miles12
Appleby4.0 miles12
Trawick4.4 miles11
Linn Flat4.9 miles11

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 MahlAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28095128The 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 1380131. 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.