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Dalton, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75568. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Dalton within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Dalton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,848 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 36 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 burning118
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6235
9 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLARRY RICH GRASS FIRE
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 358
30 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMORROW GRASS FIRE
30 September 1999Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dalton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Clay. 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
UnknownSilica, ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass 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
Marietta3.6 miles11
Cornett5.3 miles11
Bryans Mill5.6 miles11
Nickleberry5.7 miles11
Bethlehem5.9 miles11
Cusseta8.0 miles11
Almira10.8 miles10
Carterville11.5 miles10

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 DaltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125156507The 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 1378199. 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.