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Daphne, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75455. The Survey maps it on the Hagansport quadrangle.

Daphne within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Daphne between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,276 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3290 CR 2110
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 339
27 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service12-092
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 433
17 September 2018Debris and open burning56 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTITUS 16:36
15 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1939
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1326 TCRD 1360

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daphne in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
October 2010Funnel CloudDaphne-Funnel cloud reported approximately one mile west of Talco, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Lakeview6.5 miles8
Mount Vernon7.3 miles8
Hagansport8.2 miles8
Oakdale9.2 miles8
Hopewell10.3 miles9
Eureka10.9 miles8
Union11.9 miles8
Majors12.3 miles9

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 DaphneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q112967924The 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 1379635. 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.