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Mallard, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Montague-Forestburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76239. It stands on Steelman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salona quadrangle.

Mallard within Montague County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

57 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Mallard between 2004 and 2019, burning about 2,966 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 burning26
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use71 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVINSON BALER
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARTMAN
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER HUNTER FIRE
1 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service455 WEST
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILLER/MCDONALD
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDRY VALLEY RD
29 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH DITCH
28 August 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIVATE RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mallard in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
May 2011HailMallard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montague 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
Dry Valley2.9 miles10
Dye3.3 miles10
Salona5.6 miles10
Forestburg6.1 miles10
Montague6.7 miles10
Hardy7.0 miles10
Gladys7.6 miles10
Smyrna8.5 miles8

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 MallardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122834629The 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 2034582. 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.