Malvern, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Centerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75833. The Survey maps it on the Halls Bluff quadrangle.

Malvern within Leon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Halls Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Malvern between 1994 and 2020, burning about 381 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Natural	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
9 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KAREN OESTMANN
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009304
8 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LEON13:43
31 August 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010210
20 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 148
11 August 2005	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 85
5 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon County

Storms near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malvern in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Malvern	$10,000	Emergency manager reported trees and power lines blown down along Hwy 7 between FM 542 and the Trinity River, and a hay barn was blown down on the north side of Hwy 7 near Trinity River.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Malvern	$2,500	Emergency management reported a 10x10 portable shed blown over, along with minor damage to a roof and tree limbs, approximately 11 miles south-southeast of the city of Coolidge, TX.
May 2021	Hail	Malvern	$2,000	Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail approximately 12 miles south-southeast of the city of Oakwood.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Malvern	-	Emergency management reported several small trees being blown down approximately 12 miles south-southeast of the city of Coolidge, TX.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Malvern	-	An MPING report indicated trees snapped or uprooted approximately 12 miles southeast of Oakwood, TX.

Every storm recorded in Leon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Eunice	6.2 miles	10
Hopewell	6.3 miles	10
Nineveh	6.4 miles	9
Centerview	7.9 miles	10
Russell	8.3 miles	9
Guys Store	10.2 miles	11
Pleasant Springs	10.6 miles	9
Saint Paul	11.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380133. 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.