Muncy, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79235. The Survey maps it on the Lockney quadrangle.

Muncy within Floyd County

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.

1954 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Lockney quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Muncy between 2006 and 2017, burning about 3,061 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 August 2006	Natural	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
15 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 July 2016	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
15 July 2006	Natural	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muncy in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2002	Hail	Muncy	$25,000	The public reported golfball size hail.
April 2023	Hail	Muncy	-	Several reports were received, including a video on social media, of a swath of hail from approximately ten miles north of Floydada to three miles east of Floydada. The largest hail size reported was baseball size. No damage was reported.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Muncy	-	A trained spotter reported a few utility poles were blown down in addition to a fence post being snapped. A field of grass and sunflowers were also bent in an east to northeast direction which was in line with storm motion. The time of damage was estimated from radar.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Muncy	-	Multiple storm spotters and chasers observed a very brief landspout tornado about seven miles WSW of Cedar Hill.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Muncy	-	The Floyd County Sheriff's Office reported that high water streamed across portions of Texas Highway 207 near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 97 south of South Plains. The inundated section of highway spanned one half mile in width.
June 1994	Hail	Muncy	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lockney	4.8 miles	7
Floydada	6.3 miles	8
Sandhill	6.9 miles	7
Barwise	8.6 miles	7
Aiken	8.8 miles	7
Sterley	10.0 miles	7
Cedar Hill	11.3 miles	7
Harmony	11.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380227. 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.