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Daffan, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78724. It stands on Ferguson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Austin East quadrangle.

Daffan within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

84 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Daffan between 1993 and 2016, burning about 377 acres in total. None 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/undetermined53
Smoking18
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM973
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2006Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM969

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Daffan: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pit & Plant No.4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daffan in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindDaffan2 hurt, $25,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 75 mph that overturned a recreational vehicle on the east side of Austin. Two people in the RV were injured. There was also damage to the siding of nearby houses and some snapped large tree limbs.
April 2024HailDaffan-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in northeastern Austin.
January 2012Tornado (EF1)Daffan-The tornado path began near the intersection of Commercial Park Drive and Old Manor Road with radar indicating a touchdown time near 2:58 am. Damage continued north through an industrial park where a business was destroyed and several others had roof damage. The tornado then crossed U.S. Highway 290 before entering the Walnut Place subdivision. Further damage to trees and homes occurred along Springdale Road and Happy Trail. One home on Happy Trail had most of its roof lifted off. Debris was noted in a large field just south of Ferguson Lane with the tornado path ending just west of the intersection of Ferguson Lane and Sansom Road. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph.

Every storm recorded in Travis 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
Decker1.1 miles17
Smoot3.4 miles19
Manor4.0 miles17
Walnut Forest4.9 miles17
Eubank Acres5.4 miles17
Abercrombie5.4 miles19
Hornsby Bend5.5 miles18
New Katy5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034677. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.