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Mostyn, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Magnolia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77354. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia East quadrangle.

Mostyn within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Mostyn between 1992 and 2016, burning about 554 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 199
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 96
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 190
3 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mostyn in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2024FloodMostyn$6,400,000Flooding from numerous heavy rain events in April and early May led to significant damage.
April 2016Flash FloodMostyn$3,000,000FM 1774 was flooded just west of Magnolia near the Montgomery and Waller County line.
May 2018Flash FloodMostyn$10,000Several roads in the Magnolia and Stagecoach areas became impassable due to high water. Several water rescues were made from stalled vehicles.
March 2009HailMostyn$1,000Quarter-sized hail was reported just west of Magnolia.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Karen2.0 miles12
Ventura3.0 miles11
Magnolia3.5 miles12
Pinehurst4.0 miles11
Stagecoach5.8 miles11
Keenan6.8 miles12
Egypt6.8 miles13
Decker Prairie7.0 miles11

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 Q122562272The 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 1378704. 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.