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McAdoo, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dickens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79243. The Survey maps it on the McAdoo quadrangle. It stands 2,982 feet above sea level.

McAdoo within Dickens 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of McAdoo between 2006 and 2018, burning about 404 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLLIER RANCH FIRE
5 July 2011Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDARL WALKER CRP
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAPROCK/82
17 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMORRIS BROTHERS FIRE
14 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCADOO
28 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS82/CR111
20 June 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2008Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Dickens County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McAdoo in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 4 hail, 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
June 1994HailMcAdoo-The Crosby County Sheriff's Office reported golf ball-size hail on Highway 82 at Silver Falls Park (five miles east of Crosbyton). This severe thunderstorm moved into western Dickens County and produced dime-size hail southeast of McAdoo as reported by the public.
May 1995HailMcAdoo-no account filed
June 1995HailMcAdoo-no account filed
June 1995Tornado (F0)McAdoo-no account filed
April 1994HailMcAdoo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickens 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
Elton9.0 miles8
Glenn9.0 miles7
Afton10.2 miles7
Dickens11.9 miles8
East Afton14.0 miles8
Croton14.3 miles8
Soldiers Mound (historical)17.3 miles8
Spur19.5 miles6

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 McAdooAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6799868The 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 1362352. 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.