Round Mott, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Louise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77455. It stands on Lookout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gobbler Creek quadrangle. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Round Mott within Wharton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Gobbler Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Round Mott between 2008 and 2009, burning about 680 acres in total. 1 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 burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
10 August 2008	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 July 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 July 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 July 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7000 FM 1160
21 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 June 2008	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1000 CR 319

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wharton 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
Hahn	4.9 miles	8
Hillje	8.3 miles	8
New Taiton	8.3 miles	8
Louise	8.7 miles	8
Jones Creek	8.7 miles	8
El Campo	10.3 miles	8
Plainview	10.7 miles	8
Taiton (historical)	10.9 miles	8

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 Round Mott	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711292	The 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 1380462. 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.