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Dial, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stinnett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79083. The Survey maps it on the Stinnett quadrangle.

Dial within Hutchinson 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.

Fires near this place

119 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Dial between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9,571 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined56
Power generation/transmission/distribution21
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural10
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1
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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEIFER REKINDLE
3 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRESTLE FIRE
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES FIRE
29 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONWAY
20 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIRE
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresLake Meredith National Recreation AreaREALLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hutchinson 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
Stekoll Camp1.5 miles6
Stinnett3.4 miles6
Plemons4.4 miles8
Electric City6.1 miles8
Oil City7.3 miles9
Phillips7.5 miles8
Borger9.0 miles8
Sanford10.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1355997. 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.