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Trickham, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Santa Anna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76878. The Survey maps it on the Trickham quadrangle.

Trickham within Coleman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

39 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Trickham between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,192 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM586 & FM1186
12 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS /BRUSH FIRE
1 September 2020Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA VISTA
24 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 586/FM1176
20 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use75 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11501 FM586
16 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trickham in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindTrickham1 hurt, $50,000Several mobile homes were damaged by thunderstorm winds. A child suffered an eye injury from glass debris.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindTrickham$5,000A business was unroofed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindTrickham$5,000A 100-year-old building was destroyed by thunderstorm winds. Numerous trees were blown down.
May 2024HailTrickham-Dispatch for Sheriff's office reported quarter size hail near the Brown County line on CR210.
May 2017Tornado (EFU)Trickham-Two trained spotters reported this tornado in open rural country that briefly touched down. One of the spotter's noted debris was thrown into the air and the other spotter reported the tornado was on the ground.
April 2014HailTrickham-no account filed
May 2002HailTrickham-no account filed
April 2000HailTrickham-no account filed
May 1996HailTrickham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coleman 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
Cleveland6.3 miles13
Whon7.8 miles15
Obregon9.3 miles14
Rockwood9.6 miles13
Liberty9.7 miles14
Shields10.3 miles12
Santa Anna11.7 miles13
Chaffin Crossing12.7 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.

Wikipedia article on TrickhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q111514852The 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 1380676. 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.