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Monkstown, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ravenna-Telephone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75488. The Survey maps it on the Monkstown quadrangle.

Monkstown within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

64 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Monkstown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 801 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13018
6 September 2015Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service37100
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2018Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVERBY RANCH
17 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11039
1 September 2000Natural38 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCROSS N

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monkstown in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2001: 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996HailMonkstown$50,000no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMonkstown$10,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMonkstown-Power lines were blown down by high winds.
April 1994HailMonkstown-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Sash3.1 miles12
Newt3.6 miles12
Riverby3.7 miles12
Telephone4.8 miles6
Dotson6.7 miles6
Selfs6.8 miles12
Carson7.4 miles6
Elwood7.8 miles6

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 Q122563050The 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 1382315. 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.