Twin Mountains, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Graham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76450. It stands on Farmers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Graham quadrangle.

Twin Mountains within Young County

On record in Twin Mountains

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

National Theaterlisted 1993 · 0.6 miles away
Street, Spencer Boyd, Houseslisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1924 USGS Graham 4-d quadrangle1:48000
1927 USGS Graham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Graham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Graham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

135 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Twin Mountains between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,149 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Debris and open burning	33
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	16
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PETTUS RD
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FINIS RD
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2020161
3 September 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2020158
3 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	380 WEST BARDITCH FIRE
29 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	16N TANK DAM
25 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	380 BY RAIDO STSTION
24 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MARRIOTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Young 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Graham	0.4 miles	11
Bunger	6.6 miles	11
Old Caseyville Crossing	6.9 miles	11
Red Top	8.0 miles	10
South Bend	8.5 miles	11
Belknap (historical)	8.9 miles	10
Newcastle	10.1 miles	10
Loving	11.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1348960. 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.