McLeod, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bivins-McLeod census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75565. The Survey maps it on the McLeod quadrangle. 311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

McLeod within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1944 USGS Kildare quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Kildare quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1962 USGS McLeod quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of McLeod between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,041 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 101 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
Arson/incendiarism	101
Debris and open burning	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Natural	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 641
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 548
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	902 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOOTSVILLE FIRE
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 549
5 September 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
4 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 156

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Walton	1.8 miles	14
Rambo	1.9 miles	14
Huffins	4.8 miles	14
Three States	5.5 miles	13
Kildare Junction	6.3 miles	14
Bivins	8.2 miles	12
Bethsaida	8.5 miles	12
Kildare	8.9 miles	14

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 McLeod	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6802222	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 1341257. 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.