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Mahoney, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sulphur Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. It stands on Black Jack Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dike quadrangle.

Mahoney within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Mahoney between 2000 and 2020, burning about 534 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
2 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6215
31 July 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6143
22 February 2009Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 83 COLLINS FIRE
19 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 69
17 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 February 2008Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 70
31 December 2008Arson/incendiarism60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 16
26 December 2005Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 602

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahoney in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMahoney$4,000Trees were knocked down on CRs 3511 and 3504. A barn in the area was also destroyed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMahoney-The Hopkins County Sheriff reported a large tree down near the intersection of FM 3236 and CR 4508, just north of Sulphur Springs.
May 2024HailMahoney-Half dollar to ping pong ball sized hail was reported on FM 1537 northeast of Sulphur Springs.
June 2019HailMahoney-Sulphur Springs Police Department reported quarter size hail near the intersection of FM 1537 and FM 69.
June 2019HailMahoney-A public report indicated half-dollar size hail approximately 8 miles east-northeast of the city of Sulphur Springs, TX.
August 2017Flash FloodMahoney-Hopkins County Sheriff's Department reported that FM 1537 near Hwy 69 was closed due to high water; approximately 7 miles northeast of the city of Sulphur Springs, TX.
May 2024HailMahoney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Dike3.2 miles9
White Oak Junction3.7 miles9
Brinker4.5 miles9
East Caney4.6 miles9
Weaver4.8 miles9
Hatchetville5.0 miles9
Flora5.3 miles8
Shirley6.0 miles9

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 Q122557737The 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 1378635. 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.