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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
96 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 320 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | C-48 |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | DEAD MAN |
| 29 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 205 |
| 24 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 237 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawnee | - | Small softwood tree trunk snapped and downed across FM Road 1818 south of U.S. Highway 69 and west of Zavalla. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawnee | - | Decaying tree truck snapped and downed across Dead Man Road north of Zavalla. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Shawnee | - | 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Shawnee | - | High water was reported across Highway 69 south between Huntington and Zavalla. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Shawnee | - | FM 1818 at Biloxi Creek, Bear Creek, and Little Buck Creek was flooded. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Shawnee | - | Dime to penny sized hail was reported approximately 10 miles south of Huntington, Texas. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee Prairie | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Boynton | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Oak Flat | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Zavalla | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Manning | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Monterey | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Ora | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Huntington | 6.0 miles | 14 |
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 Shawnee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110530763 | 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 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.








