McCoy, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Clarksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. It stands on Bruton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Line Branch quadrangle.

McCoy within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Line Branch quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

139 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of McCoy between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,753 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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	82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4

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
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	22 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMITH
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River 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 McCoy: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Red River 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
Lone Star	1.9 miles	8
Batesville	2.3 miles	8
Mabry	2.6 miles	8
Sherry	2.6 miles	8
Aikin Grove	4.3 miles	8
Clarksville	4.5 miles	8
Liberty	6.1 miles	8
Bagwell	6.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380165. 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.