Dextra, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75760. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reklaw quadrangle.

Dextra within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1943 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Reklaw quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Dextra between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,776 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 538
9 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 494
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	256 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1218 FIRE
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 207
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 217
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 214
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6,550 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANGELINA RIVER BOTTOM FIRE
4 September 2010	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	026-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Sacul	1.2 miles	11
Cushing	4.8 miles	11
Lilbert	5.3 miles	11
Looneyville	5.6 miles	11
County Line	6.1 miles	11
Oak Flat	7.2 miles	11
Happy Valley	8.1 miles	11
Nat	8.6 miles	11

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 Q122551332

The 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 1380842. 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.