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Mount Calm, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hubbard-Mount Calm census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76673. The Survey maps it on the Penelope quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Mount Calm within Hill County

Population over time

3 figures

Mount Calm fell from 310 to 282 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000310
2010320+10 (+3%)
2020282-38 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

135 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Mount Calm between 2005 and 2020, burning about 721 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH BURNING
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH BURNING
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWER LINE
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID STAND BY
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAWNMOWER GRASS FIRE
30 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLANDMOWER CAUSE FIRE
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 171 N. MUTUAL AID

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Calm in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 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
May 1995HailMount Calm-Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1994HailMount Calm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Birome5.9 miles7
Penelope7.6 miles7
Hubbard7.7 miles8
Malone11.2 miles7
Abbott13.6 miles14
Bynum16.3 miles14
Irene16.3 miles8
Menlow16.8 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 Mount CalmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972435The 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 1375023. 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.