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McMahan, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78616. It stands on Campbell Creek. The Survey maps it on the McMahan quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

McMahan within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of McMahan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,850 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 burning101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use28
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9479 OLD COLONYLINE RD
6 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 113
5 September 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePETTYTOWN FIRE
30 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 15
29 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9371 FM 713

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Elm Grove3.1 miles11
Taylorsville3.2 miles11
Tilmon4.2 miles15
Pettytown4.9 miles11
Seawillow5.0 miles15
Dale5.7 miles15
Brownsboro6.7 miles15
Delhi6.8 miles11

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 McMahanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851210The 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 1341260. 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.