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Dernal, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victoria South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. The Survey maps it on the Bloomington quadrangle.

Dernal within Victoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

136 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Dernal between 2008 and 2020, burning about 820 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined69
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution130 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWICK PROPERTY
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUADALUPE ROAD
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLORADO FIRE
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROGERS STREET FIRE
20 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDIANA RD
18 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIRDY
11 September 2014Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dernal: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Briggs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Fordyce Co Briggs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parker Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dernal in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDernal$30,000Several power poles were blown down between Victoria and Bloomington.

Every storm recorded in Victoria 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
Guadalupe4.1 miles8
Hughes4.1 miles8
Dacosta4.2 miles8
Bloomington4.3 miles8
Placedo6.2 miles8
Chipley7.9 miles9
Victoria8.2 miles9
Aloe8.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122572717The 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 1379656. 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.

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.