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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Stewards Mill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
84 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011098 |
| 3 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FCR 221 GRASS FIRE |
| 3 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FCR 221 GRASS FIRE 2 |
| 26 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2017-060 |
| 19 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | M/A FCR 1041 |
| 9 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 207 FIRE |
| 5 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011082 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Stewards Mill | $100,000 | Emergency management reported several roads closed and county roads with culverts washed out. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Stewards Mill | $7,000 | Emergency manager reported golf ball size hail at 460 Hwy 75 North. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Stewards Mill | $7,000 | Amateur radio operator reported golf ball sized hail north of Fairfield. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Stewards Mill | $1,000 | Trained spotter reports golf ball size hail. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Stewards Mill | - | Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail at SH 75 and CR 1128 between Streetman and Fairfield. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 1.7 miles | 7 | |
| Bonnerville | 2.1 miles | 7 | |
| Ward Prairie | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Young | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Fairfield | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Streetman | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Kirvin | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Winkler | 7.9 miles | 9 |
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 Q122554001 | 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 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.



