Milburn, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rochelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76872. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elm Grove quadrangle. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Milburn within McCulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1925 USGS Brady 1-a quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Elm Grove quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

44 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Milburn between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,197 acres in total. 5 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	18
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELM GROVE FIRE
4 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POWELL
29 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MCCULLOCH COUNTY FM765&US377
25 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 214
24 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MCCULLOCH CO CR 451/US 377
9 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 214 ROUND BALES
28 August 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCulloch 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
Beasley Crossing	1.3 miles	15
Mercury	3.1 miles	16
Placid	8.7 miles	14
Military Crossing	9.1 miles	15
Mitchell Crossing	11.8 miles	15
Knight Crossing	12.3 miles	15
Selman	12.7 miles	14
Walker Crossing	13.4 miles	15

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 Milburn	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23581932	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 1380197. 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.