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Mound, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gatesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It stands on Henson Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Fort Hood quadrangle. 174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Mound within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

149 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Mound between 2003 and 2020, burning about 3,495 acres in total. 1 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 burning80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking2
Other causes1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2950 FM 1829
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1829 & FM 107
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIPPETT PLACE
26 September 2006Smoking40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEON RIVER & 1829
23 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 330 FIRE
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1015 FM 107
15 September 2017Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest Service450 CR 317

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mound: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mound PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mound in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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 2023HailMound-Fire and rescue reported quarter sized hail at the North Fort Hood Fire Station on the Longhorn and Shorthorn Airfields.

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Leon Junction2.4 miles17
Flat3.0 miles16
Pecan Grove (historical)3.7 miles16
Fort Gates5.0 miles16
South Mountain5.6 miles16
Cavitt6.5 miles16
Lime City6.5 miles16
Cold Springs7.7 miles19

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 MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6919094The 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 1363217. 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.