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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Medicine Mound quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Medicine Mound quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Vernon quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Medicine Mound quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
32 since 2006Regional 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 use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRAWFORD (M A FROM QUANAH FD) |
| 9 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC |
| 5 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROGERS (MA FROM VERNON F D) |
| 27 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PERKINS FARMS |
| 18 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KENNEDY FARMS |
| 18 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 287 WEST (M A FROM QUANAH) |
| 12 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRANGE |
| 4 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CATO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Creek-1 | Copper | Occurrence | 1968 | |
| Cottonwood Creek-2 | Copper | Occurrence | 1975 | |
| Cottonwood Creek-3 | Copper | Occurrence | 1971 | |
| Gibbs Prospect | Copper | Past Producer | 1847, 1848, 1918 | |
| Hackberry Creek-3 | Copper | Occurrence | 1968 | |
| Medicine Mounds-E-1 | Copper | Occurrence | 1848 |
Storms near this place
22 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | Tornado (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 2021 | Tornado (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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medicine Mound | - | Winds estimated based on visual observations. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medicine Mound | - | No damage reported. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | The hail was reported near Lance Road on FM 91. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | The hail was reported near FM 3295 and Neal Road. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Medicine Mound | - | Storm chasers reported a brief tornado. No damage was observed or reported. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| March 1994 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Medicine Mound | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chillicothe | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Quanah | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Middleburg | 12.4 miles | 10 | |
| Willowview | 13.2 miles | 10 | |
| Seven L Crossing | 14.9 miles | 12 | |
| Talbert Crossing | 14.9 miles | 10 | |
| Acme (historical) | 15.1 miles | 10 | |
| Carnes | 16.5 miles | 11 |
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 Mound | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6806742 | The 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.




