Meeks, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76519. The Survey maps it on the Yarrelton quadrangle.

Meeks within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Yarrelton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Meeks between 2005 and 2020, burning about 313 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	9
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	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
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
16 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2015-122
8 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	170 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TWEETY
4 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RED RANGER
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
20 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
23 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROCKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meeks in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeks	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and a few older barns on a property near Meeks Road and FM 940. Large tree branches were knocked down and parts of metal roofs and siding were pulled off more than one barn.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Cyclone	3.0 miles	14
Edgeworth	3.1 miles	14
New Colony	3.2 miles	14
Red Ranger	3.5 miles	14
Leedale	4.3 miles	14
Zabcikville	4.5 miles	14
Ocker	5.6 miles	14
Airville	6.4 miles	14

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 Meeks	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113331292	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 1380173. 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.