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Stockman, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Timpson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75975. It stands on Bear Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Garrison East quadrangle. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Stockman within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Stockman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 668 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 223
17 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJESSICA
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 252
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 234
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 235
4 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2012Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7093
3 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7091

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockman in 2 storm reports in 1994: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindStockman$5,000Several trees blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStockman$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Silas3.1 miles11
Arcadia3.7 miles11
Waterman4.8 miles11
Huber5.6 miles11
Aiken7.3 miles11
Mount Herman7.9 miles11
Grigsby8.6 miles11
Timpson8.6 miles11

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 Q130282019The 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 1380610. 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.