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Dallardsville, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. The Survey maps it on the Dallardsville quadrangle. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Dallardsville within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Dallardsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 631 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 21 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 685
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresBig Thicket National ParkRUBY
25 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 200
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Natural1.5 acresBig Thicket National ParkJAREDS FIR
12 September 2019Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOLK 17:01
12 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8086

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dallardsville in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
November 2000Thunderstorm WindDallardsville1 hurt, $15,000Large tree fell on house injuring a man.
July 2006Flash FloodDallardsville$4,000Flooding near Dallardsville at Highway 1276.
April 1994HailDallardsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Camp Seale3.9 miles12
Segno4.6 miles12
Camp Ruby7.0 miles12
Oak Shade7.1 miles12
Indian Springs7.9 miles12
New Camp Ruby7.9 miles12
Holly Grove8.6 miles12
Kiam9.2 miles12

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 DallardsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5211214The 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 1355553. 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.