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Medicine Mound, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Chillicothe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79252. It lies near Little Mound. The Survey maps it on the Medicine Mound quadrangle.

Medicine Mound within Hardeman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

32 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Medicine Mound between 2006 and 2015, burning about 1,225 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Smoking4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
1 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRAWFORD (M A FROM QUANAH FD)
9 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC
5 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROGERS (MA FROM VERNON F D)
27 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePERKINS FARMS
18 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKENNEDY FARMS
18 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 287 WEST (M A FROM QUANAH)
12 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRANGE
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardeman County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Medicine Mound: 5 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cottonwood Creek-1CopperOccurrence1968
Cottonwood Creek-2CopperOccurrence1975
Cottonwood Creek-3CopperOccurrence1971
Gibbs ProspectCopperPast Producer1847, 1848, 1918
Hackberry Creek-3CopperOccurrence1968
Medicine Mounds-E-1CopperOccurrence1848

Every working recorded in Hardeman County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medicine Mound in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 16 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2021Tornado (EFU)Medicine Mound-Storm chasers observed a tornado develop at about 6:10 PM. A second tornado developed at about 6:12 PM with both observed simultaneously until this tornado dissipated at 6:14 PM. The tornado produced no known damage in the breaks north of the Pease River, and the path was estimated.
April 2021Tornado (EFU)Medicine Mound-The second of the twin tornadoes moved southeast across southeastern Hardeman County. No damage is known to have occurred as the tornado moved through breaks north of the Pease River. As it moved through southeastern Hardeman County and into Wilbarger County, this may have been a series of tornadoes as the visual condensation funnel was not visible at times. One storm chaser reported seeing surface circulation continue through many times where the condensation funnel was not visible, so it is being documented as a continuous tornado here from the initial development in Hardeman County to west of Lockett in Wilbarger County.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMedicine Mound-Winds estimated based on visual observations.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMedicine Mound-No damage reported.
April 2012HailMedicine Mound-The hail was reported near Lance Road on FM 91.
April 2009HailMedicine Mound-The hail was reported near FM 3295 and Neal Road.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Medicine Mound-Storm chasers reported a brief tornado. No damage was observed or reported.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindMedicine Mound-no account filed
May 2020HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
May 2020HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
May 2016HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
April 2016HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
April 2015HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
April 2009HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
June 2009HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
June 2009HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
April 2003HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
April 2003HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
August 1996HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
June 1995HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
March 1994HailMedicine Mound-no account filed
May 1993HailMedicine Mound-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardeman 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
Chillicothe6.3 miles10
Quanah10.8 miles10
Middleburg12.4 miles10
Willowview13.2 miles10
Seven L Crossing14.9 miles12
Talbert Crossing14.9 miles10
Acme (historical)15.1 miles10
Carnes16.5 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 Medicine MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6806742The 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 1362566. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.