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Matinburg, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 75686. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle.

Matinburg within Camp 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

374 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 374 fires within 5 miles of Matinburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,824 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 33 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 burning241
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural13
Smoking11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3318
8 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSQUIRREL RD BRUSH FIRE
8 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2632
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 2455
7 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6227
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1336
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camp County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Matinburg in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindMatinburg-Tree down in a pasture along FM2455.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMatinburg-Trees were downed near CR. 556 southwest of Pittsburg, Texas.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Matinburg-Several trees were uprooted or snapped along County Road 3510 and near County Road 3322. No structural damage was noted.

Every storm recorded in Camp 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
Hickory Hill2.9 miles12
Pine4.1 miles12
Crossroads4.9 miles12
Leesburg6.2 miles12
Newsome7.2 miles13
Pittsburg7.7 miles12
Rocky Mound8.1 miles8
Pecan Heights8.8 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122589527The 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 1378649. 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.