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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
336 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 245 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 17 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 231 |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0318 |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6176 |
| 7 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 383 |
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Diana | - | Quarter size hail reported in Diana. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Diana | - | Golf ball size hail fell in the Diana community. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Diana | - | Multiple trees were downed near FM 726 and Zinnia Road. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Diana | - | Half dollar size hail fell near the Diana community. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Diana | - | A tree was blown down onto power lines at Highway 154 and Bentley Road. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Diana | - | Power lines were downed in the Diana community. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Diana | - | A photo was posted on the KLTV Facebook page of golfball size hail that fell in the Diana community. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Diana | - | A tree was downed on 726 north of Hwy. 259 just south of Ore City. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Old Diana | - | Golfball sized hail was reported 12 miles east of Gilmer, Texas. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Diana | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Diana | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5271060 | 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 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.



