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Dialville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rusk census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75785. The Survey maps it on the Rusk quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Dialville within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Dialville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,550 acres in total. 2 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 burning198
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4462 CR 3108
8 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1614
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7 MILE HILL
6 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 587
28 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1714
28 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 347
24 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 117

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dialville: 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Hassell MountainIronUnknown
Hawes TractIronUnknown
Hudson Pit & PlantIronProducer
J. P. AckerIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dialville in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 hail. 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
December 2002HailDialville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Delmer2.2 miles11
Oakland3.0 miles11
Turney4.0 miles12
Craft4.2 miles12
Gallatin5.1 miles12
Maydelle5.5 miles10
Pine Grove5.5 miles10
Rusk6.0 miles11

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 DialvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5270632The 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 1334323. 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.