McGirk, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76531. It stands on South Lampasas River. The Survey maps it on the Pecan Wells quadrangle.

McGirk within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1888 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Pecan Wells quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Pottsville quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of McGirk between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,625 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PECAN WELLS
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HC
31 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HC
23 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARPER
23 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1,466 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2005
22 July 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Pecan Wells	4.6 miles	13
Fairview	6.3 miles	13
Vista	6.3 miles	13
Springdale	6.6 miles	13
Shive	8.3 miles	13
Schoolerville	10.4 miles	13
Pottsville	10.7 miles	13
Indian Gap	10.9 miles	13

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 McGirk	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6801347	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 2034980. 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.