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Mikeska, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the George West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78022. It lies near Gamble Gully. The Survey maps it on the George West quadrangle.

Mikeska within Live Oak County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

28 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Mikeska between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,006 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-112
7 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-93
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019097
20 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANCH
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019092
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019066
29 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 37 & HWY 59

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mikeska in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Flash FloodMikeska$50,000A bridge was washed out on County Road 365 near Farm-to-Market 799.
October 2013FloodMikeska$50,000County Road 336 was flooded and closed at Keller Road due to major flooding on the Nueces River. Approximately 20 mobile homes were evacuated. Flood waters surrounded 2 permenant home structures.
October 2013FloodMikeska$25,000County Road 365 in River Creek Acres flooded and closed due to major flooding on the Nueces River.
October 2013FloodMikeska$25,000Antelope Road was flooded and closed due to major flooding along the Nueces River. Approximately a dozen homes along Cub Lane were cut off and not accessible.
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Mikeska$5,000An EF-0 tornado with 85 mph winds touched down just east of Highway 281 on County Road 151 and moved southwest along the county road. The tornado snapped large branches and split a few trees. The tornado lifted just west of Highway 281.
May 2015HailMikeska-Quarter sized hail occurred on Interstate 37 and Highway 59 interchange.
May 2015Flash FloodMikeska-Flash flooding occurred near the River Creek Acres subdivision.

Every storm recorded in Live Oak 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
River Creek Acres0.9 miles12
George West4.8 miles12
Dinero6.2 miles12
La Para7.5 miles9
Mount Lucas8.7 miles12
Ike9.2 miles11
Hideaway Hill10.7 miles12
Oakville11.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122546518The 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 1378680. 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.