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Shawnee, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Zavalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75949. The Survey maps it on the Zavalla quadrangle.

Shawnee within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Shawnee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,059 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarism320 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasC-48
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasDEAD MAN
29 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 205
24 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 237

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shawnee in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindShawnee-Small softwood tree trunk snapped and downed across FM Road 1818 south of U.S. Highway 69 and west of Zavalla.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindShawnee-Decaying tree truck snapped and downed across Dead Man Road north of Zavalla.
February 2018Flash FloodShawnee-FM 1818 was closed due to a washout on the southbound side between FM 844 and US Highway 69 South. Report from TXDOT Twitter page.
July 2018Flash FloodShawnee-High water was reported across Highway 69 south between Huntington and Zavalla.
August 2017Flash FloodShawnee-FM 1818 at Biloxi Creek, Bear Creek, and Little Buck Creek was flooded.
May 2010HailShawnee-Dime to penny sized hail was reported approximately 10 miles south of Huntington, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Angelina 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
Shawnee Prairie3.3 miles15
Boynton4.0 miles15
Oak Flat4.3 miles14
Zavalla5.4 miles15
Manning5.5 miles15
Monterey5.6 miles15
Ora5.8 miles13
Huntington6.0 miles14

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 ShawneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530763The 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 1380525. 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.