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Stewards Mill, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fairfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75840. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stewards Mill quadrangle.

Stewards Mill within Freestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

84 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Stewards Mill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,133 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011098
3 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 221 GRASS FIRE
3 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 221 GRASS FIRE 2
26 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2017-060
19 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceM/A FCR 1041
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service207 FIRE
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011082

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Freestone County

Storms near this place

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stewards Mill in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2024Flash FloodStewards Mill$100,000Emergency management reported several roads closed and county roads with culverts washed out.
April 2026HailStewards Mill$7,000Emergency manager reported golf ball size hail at 460 Hwy 75 North.
May 2025HailStewards Mill$7,000Amateur radio operator reported golf ball sized hail north of Fairfield.
April 2017HailStewards Mill$1,000Trained spotter reports golf ball size hail.
May 2025HailStewards Mill-Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail at SH 75 and CR 1128 between Streetman and Fairfield.

Every storm recorded in Freestone 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
Rhode Island1.7 miles7
Bonnerville2.1 miles7
Ward Prairie5.3 miles7
Young6.6 miles8
Fairfield7.1 miles8
Streetman7.5 miles9
Kirvin7.9 miles7
Winkler7.9 miles9

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 Q122554001The 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 1379113. 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.