Dike, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Hopkins-Sulphur Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75437. The Survey maps it on the Dike quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Dike within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dike quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dike between 2005 and 2016, burning about 360 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 September 2011	Natural	39 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 629
2 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6215
31 July 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6143
7 March 2013	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6040
22 February 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 83 COLLINS FIRE
19 February 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 69
17 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 December 2008	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dike in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Dike	$50,000	A barn was destroyed by thunderstorm winds. Trees were blown down across the county.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dike	$10,000	Several trees were blown down by estimated 60 MPH winds. One tree fell on a house on CR 3504. Trees were also reported down on CR 3511, and a barn in the area was destroyed.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Dike	$8,000	CR 2310 was washed out by 10 AM and had to be blockaded. A section of road near the intersection of Highway 69 and FM 1537 was underwater. In addition, firefighters from Dike helped move seventy dogs out of an animal shelter after it was flooded.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Dike	$2,000	A high water rescue was needed after a woman tried to drive through high water on CR 3567 where Crosstimbers Creek goes under the road. The water was about a foot deep and moving swiftly.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dike	$1,000	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Dike	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Dike	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Flora	2.8 miles	8
Hatchetville	2.9 miles	9
Mahoney	3.2 miles	9
Oakdale	3.5 miles	9
Shirley	3.7 miles	9
Nelta	4.4 miles	8
Birthright	5.0 miles	9
New Birthright	5.9 miles	9

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 Dike	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5276509	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 1334352. 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.