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Diana, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75640. It stands on Clark Branch. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Diana within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Diana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,751 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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 burning245
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 231
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-0318
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6176
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 383
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1999Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diana in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 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
May 2024HailDiana-Quarter size hail reported in Diana.
April 2023HailDiana-Golf ball size hail fell in the Diana community.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindOld Diana-Multiple trees were downed near FM 726 and Zinnia Road.
April 2020HailDiana-Half dollar size hail fell near the Diana community.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDiana-A tree was blown down onto power lines at Highway 154 and Bentley Road.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindDiana-Power lines were downed in the Diana community.
April 2016HailDiana-A photo was posted on the KLTV Facebook page of golfball size hail that fell in the Diana community.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOld Diana-A tree was downed on 726 north of Hwy. 259 just south of Ore City.
April 2012HailOld Diana-Golfball sized hail was reported 12 miles east of Gilmer, Texas.
January 1998HailDiana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
James1.2 miles12
Bethel1.3 miles12
Graceton2.0 miles12
Old Diana2.2 miles12
Ashland2.9 miles12
Stamps3.8 miles12
Valley View4.1 miles12
Snow Hill4.5 miles12

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 DianaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5271060The 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 1334335. 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.