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O'Quinn, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Grange West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78945. The Survey maps it on the Swiss Alp quadrangle.

O'Quinn within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of O'Quinn between 1993 and 2017, burning about 453 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names O'Quinn in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 hail, 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindO Quinn$1,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that damaged the roof of a house.
December 2024HailO Quinn-A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail on FM 609 between Mach Rd. and Black Jack Rd. near O'Quinn.
May 2023HailO Quinn-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail southeast of La Grange.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Hostyn3.3 miles10
Swiss Alp4.3 miles10
Freyburg4.4 miles10
Marly4.7 miles11
Muldoon5.2 miles11
Lena5.5 miles12
Ammannsville6.5 miles10
Wendt7.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378774. 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.