Marshall Ford, Texas

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.

• 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
• 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1930 USGS Austin-2 quadrangle1:48000
• 1932 USGS Mt. Bonnell quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Lake Travis quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1968 USGS Mansfield Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Mansfield Dam quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Marshall Ford between 2007 and 2020, burning about 175 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Steiner Ranch
• Four Points
• River Hills
• Volente
• Buffalo Gap
• Greenshores

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall Ford in 13 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.

Every storm recorded in Travis County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362202. 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.