McMillan, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Richland Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76877. It stands on South Prong Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Valley South quadrangle.

McMillan within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1885 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1925 USGS San Saba 1-c quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Goldthwaite quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Goldthwaite quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Goldthwaite quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Big Valley South quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of McMillan between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,560 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
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
18 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGHWAY 16 NORTH
27 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EDMONDSON
16 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAMBERT
17 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	345 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	412
3 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 144
14 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGHWAY 16 N
16 May 2006	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Fairview

Every fire recorded in San Saba 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
Fairview	6.2 miles	14
China Creek	8.4 miles	14
San Saba	9.2 miles	16
Spring Creek	9.3 miles	14
Harkeyville	10.3 miles	13
Algerita	12.4 miles	13
Hicks Crossing	13.1 miles	16
Locker	13.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034961. 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.