Dalby Springs, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dalby Springs-Simms census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75559. The Survey maps it on the Dalby Springs quadrangle. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Dalby Springs within Bowie County

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.

1930 USGS Bassett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dalby Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Dalby Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,058 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 burning	73
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	190 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 176
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6226
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 464
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 656
27 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 630
23 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 457

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie 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
Ward Creek	2.6 miles	11
Tuckers Corner	4.3 miles	11
College Hill	4.8 miles	11
New Hope	5.2 miles	11
Siloam	5.7 miles	11
Darden	7.1 miles	11
Hubbard	7.1 miles	11
Hodgson	7.1 miles	11

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 Dalby Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5210274	The 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 1379631. 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.