Maysfield, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. It stands on String Prairie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maysfield quadrangle.

Maysfield within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Maysfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Maysfield between 2009 and 2017, burning about 751 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
9 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALDRIDGE FIRE
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STROUD FIRE
15 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COWARD FIRE
2 July 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DONALD JOHNSON FIRE
21 June 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RICHARD KRENEK
13 June 2009	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SKINNER 2
13 June 2009	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SKINNER
11 June 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COBB FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maysfield in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
June 2004	Tornado (F1)	Maysfield	1 killed, $15,000	The tornado developed at approximately 605 PM, 1 mile west of Maysfield near the intersection of FM 485 and CR 249. The tornado damaged a store near this intersection, then moved slowly west,along and just south of FM 485. The most significant damage occurred along FM 485 between CR 252and FM 979. A large corrugated metal workshop on the south side of FM 485 had the roof blown into some trees, and the walls blown down. The fatality occurred in this building. Apparently the door fell on a 72 year old man, hitting him in the head and killing him. North of FM 485 and east of FM 979, a shed was damaged.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysfield	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged metal roofs in the Maysfield area along FM 485.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Belmena	3.2 miles	7
Jones Prairie	4.6 miles	7
Branchville	4.7 miles	7
Marlow	5.0 miles	8
Silver City	5.3 miles	7
Crossroads	5.6 miles	7
Hanover	6.6 miles	7
Quinif	6.9 miles	7

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 Maysfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122541939	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 1362341. 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.