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Mount Selman, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Selman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75757. The Survey maps it on the Mount Selman quadrangle. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Mount Selman within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

322 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Mount Selman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,019 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 7 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 burning198
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Other causes1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1215 CR 3811
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1/16 ACRE FIRE
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7132
30 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 119
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1276 CR 3905
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2224 CR 3406
28 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-613
26 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3820

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Mount Selman: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Mount SelmanIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Selman in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
January 1995HailMount Selman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Larissa2.3 miles14
Pomona3.9 miles14
Mixon4.2 miles15
Tecula5.2 miles15
Cove Springs5.2 miles14
Church Hill5.8 miles10
Lake View6.5 miles10
Reese6.5 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 SelmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711075The 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 1342114. 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.