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Majors, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75457. The Survey maps it on the New Hope quadrangle.

Majors within Franklin 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

134 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Majors between 1993 and 2019, burning about 746 acres in total. 2 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 burning86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRACE LUTHERAN
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6289
28 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3090
28 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUTHRIE
28 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 243
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6224

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Majors in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
October 2010HailMajors-Half dollar sized hail fell at Hwy. 3122 and 115.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Purley2.4 miles9
Hopewell3.6 miles9
Union3.6 miles8
Cypress4.8 miles9
Macon5.0 miles9
Mount Vernon5.9 miles8
New Hope6.4 miles9
Clearwater7.2 miles13

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 MajorsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q112967966The 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 1378636. 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.