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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.

Splawn within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

53 since 2006

Regional 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALDRIDGE FIRE
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHURFFIELD FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMERON FIRE
29 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2012Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOSEY FIRE
8 July 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. HWY 77
6 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 133

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010HailSplawn$4,000Tennis Ball size hail was reported at FM 485 and US 77, approximately 4 miles north of Cameron.
April 2022HailSplawn-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail about 5 miles north of Cameron, TX.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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
Silver City2.0 miles7
Quinif3.0 miles7
Ben Arnold3.0 miles7
North Elm3.4 miles14
Belmena4.2 miles7
Marak4.6 miles14
Cameron4.6 miles8
Yarrelton5.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122548325The 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.