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Malone, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Malone-Penelope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76660. The Survey maps it on the Malone quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Malone within Hill County

Population over time

3 figures

Malone fell from 278 to 237 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000278
2010269-9 (-3%)
2020237-32 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

208 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Malone between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,650 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking4
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 2019Other causes4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE REKINDLE
9 September 2019Other causes30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUBBARD GRASS AND STRUCTURE FIRE
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMATSON BOTTOM REKINDEL
7 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 744 GRASS
7 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malone in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 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
June 2024Flash FloodMalone$10,000Multiple county roads flooded.
January 1998Flash FloodMalone-Several roads were reported flooded in and around town.
February 2024HailMalone-no account filed
April 2008HailMalone-no account filed
April 2008HailMalone-no account filed
March 1996HailMalone-no account filed
March 1996HailMalone-no account filed
October 1996HailMalone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Penelope4.3 miles7
Irene5.3 miles8
Bynum6.8 miles14
Hubbard7.0 miles8
Birome8.1 miles7
Brandon9.5 miles8
Mertens9.7 miles8
Abbott9.7 miles14

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 MaloneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979590The 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 1340881. 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.