Splawn, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. It stands on North Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ben Arnold 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Ben Arnold quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
53 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Splawn between 2006 and 2018, burning about 470 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALDRIDGE FIRE |
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHURFFIELD FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAMERON FIRE |
| 29 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOSEY FIRE |
| 8 July 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | N. HWY 77 |
| 6 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 133 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Splawn in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Hail | Splawn | $4,000 | Tennis Ball size hail was reported at FM 485 and US 77, approximately 4 miles north of Cameron. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Splawn | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail about 5 miles north of Cameron, TX. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver City | 2.0 miles | 7 | |
| Quinif | 3.0 miles | 7 | |
| Ben Arnold | 3.0 miles | 7 | |
| North Elm | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Belmena | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Marak | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Cameron | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Yarrelton | 5.4 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.
| Wikidata item Q122548325 | 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 1380583. 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.


