Mosheim, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Valley Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76689. The Survey maps it on the Mosheim quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Mosheim within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1888 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Mosheim quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mosheim quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Mosheim between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,214 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
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	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
9 September 2003	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 40
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POSTON
15 September 2005	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ODLE LANE
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BCSO
5 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	130 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 3150
4 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BCSO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque 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
Pendell	6.8 miles	12
Valley Mills	7.1 miles	16
Crossroad Store	8.2 miles	12
Norse	9.7 miles	13
Rock Springs	10.6 miles	16
Clifton	10.8 miles	12
Cayote	12.4 miles	15
Womack	15.6 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 Mosheim	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711066	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 1375010. 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.