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McNeil, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Luling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78648. The Survey maps it on the Harwood quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

McNeil within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

78 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of McNeil between 1993 and 2020, burning about 806 acres in total. 1 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 use37
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 115
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTWIDWELL FIRE
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 104
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMULE CREEK ROAD FIRE
24 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH SOUTH OIL
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH-10
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKHART COMMAND

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
Soda Springs1.1 miles16
Watts3.5 miles15
Luling3.9 miles15
Brownsboro5.4 miles15
Tilmon6.4 miles15
Joliet6.6 miles15
Mineral Springs (historical)6.8 miles15
Stairtown7.6 miles15

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 McNeilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851212The 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 1378658. 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.