Mendota, Texas

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Canadian North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79014. It stands on South Simmons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mendota quadrangle.

Mendota within Hemphill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Mendota quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Pampa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mendota between 2006 and 2019, burning about 299 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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	20
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAGLEROCK CO.RD.3
6 August 2011	Natural	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MINDOTA RANCH
3 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAGLE ROCK ARRINGTON
28 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAGLE ROCK ARRINGTON 2
24 July 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 July 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	US 60 WEST SPOT FIRES
11 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SPOT FIRES HWY 60 WEST

Every fire recorded in Hemphill County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendota in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 5 hail, 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
August 2007	Hail	Mendota	-	Reported on the Hemphill County and Roberts County line.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendota	-	Several tree limbs reported broken at the Hemphill County and Roberts County line. Time of occurrence was estimated based on the radar.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendota	-	Several trees were reported blown down.
June 1997	Hail	Mendota	-	Report of hail covering Highway 33.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendota	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Mendota	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Mendota	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Mendota	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hemphill 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
Canadian	9.8 miles	5
Clear Creek	13.2 miles	5
Springers Ranch (historical)	17.3 miles	6
Glazier	19.1 miles	6
Gem	19.9 miles	5
Dreyfoos	27.5 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380180. 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.