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Morgan Mill, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Morgan Mill-Bluff Dale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76401. It stands on Henshaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morgan Mill quadrangle. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Morgan Mill within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

222 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Mill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 7,870 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 1188
27 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE PR 1562
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service281 N
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceANSLEY
2 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHICKEN CITY FIRE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan Mill in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
April 2008Thunderstorm WindMorgan Mill$25,000A large tree was blown onto a house in extreme northeast Erath County.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMorgan Mill$10,000Trees were blown down on Highway 281 near Morgan Mill. The roof of the Morgan Mill school was heavily damaged.
May 2013HailMorgan Mill$5,000Morgan Mill Fire Department reported ping pong ball hail in the city of Morgan Mill.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMorgan Mill$5,000The Erath County Sheriff's Office reported large trees blown down on Highway 281, north of Morgan Mill.
April 2011HailMorgan Mill$5,000no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Morgan Mill$2,000A tornado briefly touched down and damaged two barns.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindMorgan Mill$500A large tree was blown down.
June 2025HailMorgan Mill-Quarter size hail reported in Morgan Mill by FD.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindMorgan Mill-Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. The trees blocked the roadway of Erath County Road 132 approximately 2 miles northwest of Morgan Mill.
October 2010HailMorgan Mill-Nickel size hail was reported in Morgan Mill.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMorgan Mill-Large tree limbs broken off.
June 2003HailMorgan Mill-Reported by the co-op observer.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindMorgan Mill-Several trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2020HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
April 2014HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
April 2004HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
June 2004HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
June 2003HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
June 1999HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
June 1999HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
April 1997HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
April 1997HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
April 1997HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
October 1996HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
October 1996HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
October 1996HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodMorgan Mill-no account filed
May 1993HailMorgan Mill-no account filed
October 1993HailMorgan Mill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Sapoak6.3 miles12
Huckabay7.6 miles13
Patillo7.9 miles21
Bluff Dale8.1 miles14
Hannibal9.0 miles13
Knob Hill9.0 miles14
Stephenville11.7 miles15
Welcome Valley13.0 miles15

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 Morgan MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6911772The 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 1341913. 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.