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Denton, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clyde census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79510. It lies near Eagle Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Eula quadrangle.

Denton within Callahan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

88 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Denton between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,871 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural4
Smoking2

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 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVIS
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOLE FIRE
29 September 2020Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROSS PLAINS MUTUAL AID
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10374 PRIVATE RD 2410
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREKINDLE OF HOT FIRE
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER BLIND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callahan County

Storms near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denton in 15 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado, 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
March 2026Tornado (EFU)Denton-A storm chaser observed a tornado on the ground southeast of Potosi, TX.
March 2026Tornado (EFU)Denton-A storm chaser video indicated a brief tornado touchdown south of Clyde.
March 2026Funnel CloudDenton-A storm chaser reported a funnel cloud via social media.
November 2025HailDenton-Public reported quarter size hail.
February 2024HailDenton-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2023HailDenton-The public reported larger than baseball size hail 4 miles east-southeast of Dudley. The time based on radar.
September 2022HailDenton-The Fire Department reported quarter size hail 4 miles southeast of Eula.
April 2016HailDenton-A trained spotter reported pea to penny size hail on Farm to Market Road 604, one mile south of State Highway 36.
May 2015HailDenton-Penny to quarter size hail fell in Denton Valley.
April 2014HailDenton-The public reported numerous nickel and quarter size hail nearly covering the ground.
May 2007Flash FloodDenton-A road was closed because of flooding near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 604 and Highway 36.
August 2007Flash FloodDenton-Water was reported over FM604.
April 2008HailDenton-no account filed
May 2008HailDenton-no account filed
May 2007HailDenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Callahan 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
Dudley3.5 miles14
Eula5.9 miles14
Oplin8.3 miles14
Belle Plain10.1 miles9
Clyde10.4 miles9
Rowden11.0 miles9
Baird12.1 miles9
Admiral13.1 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 DentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q124031813The 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 1378210. 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.