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Maverick, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ballinger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76865. The Survey maps it on the Maverick quadrangle.

Maverick within Runnels County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Maverick between 2006 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
29 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHNING FIRE
30 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAVRICK FIRE
25 June 2010Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON SH 158 AT COKE/RUNNELS COUNTY LINE
10 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service281 FIRE
14 March 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Runnels County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maverick: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reece PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Runnels County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maverick in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Maverick$8,000A tornado briefly touched down and destroyed a barn. No other damage was noted.
May 2015Funnel CloudMaverick-no account filed
April 2003HailMaverick-no account filed
May 1996HailMaverick-no account filed
May 1996HailMaverick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Runnels 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
Norton4.5 miles15
Marie4.6 miles14
Valley View9.3 miles15
Wilmeth10.7 miles13
Hatchel13.1 miles13
Ballinger14.7 miles15
Winters15.0 miles12
Rowena15.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1341086. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.