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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.

Dime Box within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

77 since 2005

Regional 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 424 & CR433
4 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAILROAD CR430
4 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR403/HW21
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE BAKER HUES
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR426

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1998Tornado (F1)Dime Box$80,000A 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 2000Flash FloodOld Dime Box$5,000Rainfall 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 2020HailDime Box-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Dime Box.
March 2018HailDime Box-A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail off FM 141 southeast of Dime Box.
May 2015Flash FloodDime 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 2011Thunderstorm WindDime Box-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 knots which knocked down a large tree across Hwy 121 in Dime Box.
April 2008HailDime Box-Quarter size hail was reported along Highway 141.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDime Box-Damaging winds from severe thunderstorms knocked down trees between Dime Box and Lincoln.
January 1998Tornado (F0)Dime Box-A short-lived tornado was sighted by the public just west of Dime Box. No damage was reported.
March 2013HailDime Box-no account filed
January 1999HailOld Dime Box-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Old Dime Box2.6 miles9
Loebau6.5 miles9
Sweet Home6.8 miles10
Doak Springs7.8 miles9
Leo8.6 miles9
Lincoln8.9 miles9
Lexington10.9 miles15
Pleasant Grove (historical)11.0 miles9

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 BoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3470462The 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.