Dime Box, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lincoln-Dime Box census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77853. The Survey maps it on the Dime Box quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Dime Box quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Dime Box quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
77 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Dime Box between 2005 and 2020, burning about 435 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR 424 & CR433 |
| 4 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAILROAD CR430 |
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR403/HW21 |
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE BAKER HUES |
| 26 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR426 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dime Box in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Dime Box | $80,000 | A third tornado touched down near Dime Box. It was spotted by a constable who reported that it destroyed a barn and several sheds across a city block, taking off tin roofs. tossing lumber about and knocking down fences. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Old Dime Box | $5,000 | Rainfall of up to 5 inches caused widespread flash flooding of low water crossings in the city of Hondo. Water was also reported in homes due to wave action as cars drove through the flooded streets. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Dime Box | - | A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Dime Box. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Dime Box | - | A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail off FM 141 southeast of Dime Box. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Dime Box | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several roads in Lee County including FM 141 near Dime Box and FM 1624 near Lexington. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dime Box | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 knots which knocked down a large tree across Hwy 121 in Dime Box. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Dime Box | - | Quarter size hail was reported along Highway 141. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dime Box | - | Damaging winds from severe thunderstorms knocked down trees between Dime Box and Lincoln. |
| January 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Dime Box | - | A short-lived tornado was sighted by the public just west of Dime Box. No damage was reported. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Dime Box | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Old Dime Box | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Dime Box | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Loebau | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Sweet Home | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Doak Springs | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Leo | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln | 8.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lexington | 10.9 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Grove (historical) | 11.0 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 Dime Box | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3470462 | 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 1334366. 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.



