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Dads Corner, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holliday census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76366. The Survey maps it on the Dads Corner quadrangle.

Dads Corner within Archer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

100 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Dads Corner between 2006 and 2020, burning about 9,207 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use29
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Debris and open burning7
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHALK HILL
2 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service368 FIRE
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09/14/2020A
1 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRITTON LANE FIRE
9 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWARREN PLANT ROAD FIRE
7 August 2010Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHALK HILL GRASS FIRE
31 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 79 FIRE
28 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archer 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
Holliday4.8 miles8
Hartex5.2 miles8
Mankins6.3 miles7
Luke Wilson7.6 miles9
Black Flat8.7 miles9
Lakeside City9.5 miles10
Archer City10.9 miles9
Dundee11.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379630. 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.