McCoy, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75161. The Survey maps it on the Ables Springs quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

McCoy within Kaufman 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.

1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Quinlan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Ables Springs quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

205 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of McCoy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,350 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1667 PR 2541
6 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HUNT
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 337
30 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FINSTED FIRE
2 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9234 FM 751

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McCoy: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Able Springs Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Johnes Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Malone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kaufman 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
Ables Springs	0.9 miles	12
Cedar Grove	4.7 miles	12
Poetry	7.3 miles	13
Frog	7.5 miles	10
Cobb	7.6 miles	10
Elmo	7.6 miles	10
Terrell	10.8 miles	10
College Mound	11.2 miles	10

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 McCoy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076536	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 1378659. 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.