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Pancake, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Turnersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. The Survey maps it on the Ater quadrangle. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.

Pancake within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

114 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Pancake between 2005 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
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
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOBBY BUSTERS
17 September 2020Debris and open burning23 acresTexas A & M Forest Service546
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOK MORRIS
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8072016
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVENPORT
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAYHEW WATSON
6 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pancake in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2025Flash FloodPancake-Coryell County dispatch reported that the road was impassable due to flooding in the 6000 block of FM 217 near Turnersville.

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Turnersville3.2 miles12
Jonesboro4.1 miles11
Hurst Springs6.5 miles12
Ames6.8 miles12
Ater7.3 miles12
Levita8.5 miles11
Ireland9.4 miles11
Coryell10.8 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 PancakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987448The 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 1380322. 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.