McLean, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the McLean census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79057. The Survey maps it on the McLean quadrangle. 665 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,861 feet above sea level.
On record in McLean
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
McLean Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2006
Population over time
3 figuresMcLean fell from 830 to 665 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 830 | |
| 2010 | 778 | -52 (-6%) |
| 2020 | 665 | -113 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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 Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS McLean quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Shamrock quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of McLean between 2007 and 2018, burning about 1,325 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR BB & 27 |
| 11 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CO RD Z & GRAY CO LINE |
| 11 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY LINE RD/CR-Z |
| 2 February 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 November 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CO LINE WEST Y |
| 9 January 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRAY COUNTRY LINE N |
| 5 January 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McLean in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 10 hail, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Tornado (F4) | McLean | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F2) | McLean | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | McLean | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F2) | McLean | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Mclean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
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.
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 McLean | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981896 | 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 1362506. 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.



