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Mangum, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gorman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76435. The Survey maps it on the Carbon quadrangle.

Mangum within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Mangum between 2005 and 2018, burning about 3,842 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHANNA #1
7 July 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAILEY
27 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution54 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHORSE CREEK
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTERRY STACY
31 May 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 296 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mangum in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024HailMangum-Half dollar sized hail fell 2.7 miles northeast of Magnum.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindMangum-Eastland County Sheriff's Office reported several trees blown down by thunderstorm winds. The damage occurred near County Road 313 and FM 2683 north of Gorman.
May 2011HailMangum-Quarter sized hail fell along Highway 6 about 5 miles south of Eastland.

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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
Punkin Center1.6 miles12
Carbon3.8 miles12
Eastland6.0 miles13
Pleasant Hill6.2 miles13
Romney7.5 miles13
Cisco7.9 miles13
Mountain Top8.0 miles13
Staff8.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378639. 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.