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Olin, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76457. The Survey maps it on the Hico quadrangle.

Olin within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

64 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Olin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 940 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service206 GRASS FIRE
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9536 FM 1744
7 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service30-- CR 122
29 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5690 FM 1744
29 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1744 CR 141

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olin in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 4 hail, 2 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 2004Thunderstorm WindOlin$15,000A shed was destroyed, and 3 barns were damaged between Olin and Fairy.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindOlin$2,000A mobile home was pushed off part of its cinder blocks along Hwy 281 north of FM 219.
March 2016HailOlin-Hail up to the size of half dollars fell approximately 9 miles north of Hamilton.
June 1995HailOlin-One foot of water was over Highway 281 north of Hico.
November 2004HailOlin-no account filed
October 1993HailOlin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Sunshine2.2 miles15
Spurlin2.9 miles15
Carlton4.5 miles16
Springtown6.8 miles15
Fairy6.9 miles12
Hico8.3 miles15
Gentrys Mill8.6 miles15
Lanham11.9 miles12

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 OlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116029648The 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 1378803. 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.