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Mumford, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hearne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77867. The Survey maps it on the Mumford quadrangle. It stands 259 feet above sea level.

Mumford within Robertson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

24 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mumford between 2006 and 2020, burning about 242 acres in total. None 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
27 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH HAY FIRE FM1362N
6 August 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEES CHAPEL PASTURES
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEES CHAPEL RD.
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8192019
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8142018
16 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6162018
9 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDILLY SHAW FIRE
28 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITE 1362 NORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson 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 Mumford: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Gifford-Hill Saunders PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mumford in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020HailMumford$7,000Quarter to golf ball sized hail was reported in Mumford.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindMumford$6,000Large tree limbs were broken off at a home in the Mumford area. One tree limb fell on and punctured the roof, causing rain to poor into the home. It is possible this damage may have been caused by a brief tornado based on a short video clip of the damage from local broadcast media, but that determination was too difficult to make without a ground survey.
April 2019Tornado (EFU)Mumford-A brief EF-0 tornado was confirmed from 3 videos just east of the town of Mumford, TX in southern Robertson County. No damage was reported as the track stayed in open farmland.
November 1998Flash FloodMumford-Heavy thunderstorm rains allowed water to cover Highway 50 and 79 near Mumford.
May 2013HailMumford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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
Astin1.9 miles9
Nicholas3.7 miles8
Rye4.0 miles10
Tatsie4.5 miles8
Tatsie Crossing5.1 miles8
Benchley5.7 miles10
Sutton6.3 miles8
Valley Junction8.4 miles7

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 MumfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6935391The 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 1363474. 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.