BlockMayfield, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76645. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro West quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hillsboro West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
128 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield between 2008 and 2020, burning about 537 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUZZARD/TRANSFORMER |
| 7 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 159 |
| 23 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE- HCR 4311 |
| 21 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 178 |
| 17 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 615 HCR 1450 S |
| 14 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HCR 1319 |
| 14 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GOLDSMITH |
| 10 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Mayfield | $100,000 | Report from mPING: Softball (4.50 in.). |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayfield | $90,000 | A manufactured home on CR 1458 was destroyed by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Mayfield | - | FM 66 between the two towns was flooded. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Mayfield | - | A tornado was reported from Mayfield to near Itasca. There is no known damage. |
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.
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 Mayfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q125464750 | The 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 1341109. 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.