BlockMahomet, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Briggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78605. The Survey maps it on the Mahomet quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1893 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Mahomet quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
98 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Mahomet between 2004 and 2020, burning about 4,381 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10000 US183 |
| 27 September 2011 | Natural | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH FORK FIRE |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FENCE POST |
| 2 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 800 ABBEY RD |
| 1 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 12-0000299 |
| 4 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOBO FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahomet in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2012: 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Mahomet | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding that led to a swift water rescue in northeastern Burnet County near Mahomet. |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Mahomet | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Mahomet | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Mahomet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q115804187 | 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 1380132. 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.