BlockSkeen, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the O'Donnell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79373. The Survey maps it on the Skeen Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS Skeen Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Slaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Skeen between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,180 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 5 S. ON 87 GRASS |
| 23 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 4 S. ON FM 108 |
| 27 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 60 ACRE FIRE |
| 23 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 10 MILES S. ON US 87 |
| 17 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 June 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH 87 GRASS FIRE |
| 16 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skeen in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2008 | Flood | Skeen | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Skeen | $600 | Hail as large as tennis balls destroyed the rear window of a storm chaser's SUV. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Skeen | - | An emergency manager in Lynn County reported baseball size hail. No damage was reported. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Skeen | - | A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 61 mph in Tahoka. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377186. 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.