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Mingus, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Strawn-Gordon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76463. It lies near Tater Hill. The Survey maps it on the Strawn East quadrangle. 223 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Mingus within Palo Pinto County

Population over time

2 figures

Mingus fell from 235 to 223 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010235
2020223-12 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

195 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Mingus between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,829 acres in total. 1 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 use93
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREED
6 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 107
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service370I20
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service372
16 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mingus: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Strawn Materials Davidson PitClayProducer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palo Pinto County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mingus in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindMingus$20,000The front entrance of a building in Mingus collapsed inward with glass blown out of the front windows.
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Mingus$5,000A brief EF-1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 105 mph occurred north of Mingus on the evening of May 18th. Tree damage was noted along Dairy Farm Road, with the most significant tree damage observed on a private property. Very large pecan trees were uprooted, with a few large trunks snapped. Many other large branches and small trunks were snapped across the property. Sheet metal was also ripped off of a metal shed on the northern edge of the property.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMingus$2,000Power poles and damaged trees were observed along Rock Creek Road to the northwest of Mingus.
March 2009HailMingus-Nickel size hail was reported in Mingus.

Every storm recorded in Palo Pinto 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
Lyra2.8 miles16
Gordon2.9 miles16
Strawn4.1 miles16
Coalville5.4 miles16
Gordon Junction5.5 miles16
Santo11.9 miles21
Metcalf Gap11.9 miles16
Lone Camp12.7 miles16

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 MingusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982167The 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 1341720. 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.