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Dexter, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Callisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76273. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle.

Dexter within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

77 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Dexter between 2005 and 2020, burning about 7,706 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCK CREEK
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAWPAW CREEK
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarism12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE DIAMOND RESORT
13 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCK CREEK
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE DIAMOND RESORT
8 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 678 & FM 2383
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dexter in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2006: 3 hail, 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
March 2006HailDexter$5,000no account filed
March 1998Thunderstorm WindDexter-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 1997HailDexter-no account filed
April 1995HailDexter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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
Coesfield3.6 miles13
Sturgeon4.3 miles13
Balm5.0 miles12
Walnut Bend6.0 miles13
Callisburg8.7 miles13
Custer City10.4 miles13
Oak Ridge12.4 miles13
Sivells Bend14.0 miles13

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 DexterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q56322258The 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 1355990. 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.