Delba, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Leonard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75452. It stands on Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Delba within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

129 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Delba between 2005 and 2020, burning about 989 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	60
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAY TRAILER BLOW OUT
11 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 707 GRASS FIRE
11 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 670 GRASS FIRE
10 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 121 GRASS FIRE
1 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FROGKNOT NORTH BRANCH - 111
9 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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
Nobility	1.9 miles	6
Trenton	3.9 miles	6
Leonard	4.4 miles	6
Union Hill	6.7 miles	6
Orangeville	7.1 miles	6
Randolph	8.6 miles	6
Bailey	9.6 miles	6
Enterprise	10.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379648. 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.