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Dies, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kountze census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77625. The Survey maps it on the Village Mills quadrangle.

Dies within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Dies between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,980 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 51 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 burning69
Arson/incendiarism51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 946
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1293
28 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 212
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARDIN 16:00

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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
Honey Island2.4 miles13
Kountze4.6 miles13
Lelavale4.8 miles13
Nona6.7 miles13
Village Mills7.2 miles13
Fresenius8.5 miles12
Bragg9.2 miles14
Wildwood9.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379663. 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.