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Mankins, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holliday census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76366. The Survey maps it on the Mankins quadrangle. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Mankins within Archer County

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

56 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Mankins between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,513 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
Natural2
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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK FLATS FIRE
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON RANCH ROAD FIRE
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 25 FIRE
3 September 2016Debris and open burning375 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 25 FIRE
16 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 25 WEST FIRE
1 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRITTON LANE FIRE
16 August 2020Natural110 acresTexas A & M Forest Service08/16/2020A
16 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOSE CITY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archer County

Storms near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mankins in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 34 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindMankins$4,000A roof was blown off a vacant building and onto Highway 25. Utility poles were also downed in the area.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMankins-Wind gust captured by a vehicle anemometer along Texas Highway 25, south of Mankins. The location is approximate.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMankins-The wind gust was measured at the intersection of Highways 25 and 82.
May 2000HailMankins-Hail was reported on the southwest side of Mankins.
June 2023HailMankins-no account filed
May 2023HailMankins-no account filed
March 2023HailMankins-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMankins-no account filed
May 2020HailMankins-no account filed
July 2016HailMankins-no account filed
May 2012HailMankins-no account filed
May 2011HailMankins-no account filed
April 2009HailMankins-no account filed
April 2009HailMankins-no account filed
April 2009HailMankins-no account filed
June 2005HailMankins-no account filed
June 2005HailMankins-no account filed
September 2005HailMankins-no account filed
April 2003HailMankins-no account filed
April 2003HailMankins-no account filed
April 2003HailMankins-no account filed
April 2003HailMankins-no account filed
April 2003HailMankins-no account filed
April 2003HailMankins-no account filed
May 2003HailMankins-no account filed
May 2003HailMankins-no account filed
September 2002HailMankins-no account filed
September 2002HailMankins-no account filed
April 2000HailMankins-no account filed
April 2000Funnel CloudMankins-no account filed
May 2000HailMankins-no account filed
May 2000HailMankins-no account filed
June 1999HailMankins-no account filed
September 1999HailMankins-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMankins-no account filed
April 1995HailMankins-no account filed
October 1994HailMankins-no account filed
April 1993HailMankins-no account filed
May 1993HailMankins-no account filed
May 1993HailMankins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Archer 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
Holliday5.9 miles8
Dads Corner6.3 miles9
Dundee6.3 miles9
Black Flat6.3 miles9
Hartex6.9 miles8
Lakeside City13.7 miles10
Luke Wilson13.8 miles9
Archer City15.8 miles9

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 MankinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076531The 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 1362131. 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.