Mecca, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the North Zulch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77871. The Survey maps it on the North Zulch quadrangle.

Mecca within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1931 USGS Iola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS North Zulch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Mecca between 2006 and 2019, burning about 245 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
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 September 2011	Natural	17 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 960
23 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FRITZ FIRE
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	488
3 August 2013	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4029
5 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RON JOHNS
28 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MADISON 17:03
21 June 2014	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS NORM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mecca in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 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
April 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Mecca	-	Storm chasers from Texas A&M University observed a brief touchdown east of their location on FM 39 south of Highway 21. This was the third and final reported tornado with this thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
George	2.4 miles	9
Laceola	4.3 miles	11
North Zulch	5.1 miles	9
Canary	5.9 miles	10
Cottonwood	5.9 miles	9
Bundy Crossing	8.4 miles	10
Madisonville	8.6 miles	11
Cross Roads	10.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380171. 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.