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Dinero, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the George West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78368. It lies near Hog Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dinero quadrangle. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Dinero within Live Oak County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dinero between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,018 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Natural1

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
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 534 & SH 359
18 July 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS.S. NORTHSHORE
12 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2006Smoking11 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2009Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONNER FIRE
28 March 2006Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use55 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dinero: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount Lucas MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound

Every working recorded in Live Oak County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dinero in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2012Thunderstorm WindDinero$10,000Trees were blown down and into the roadway on Farm to Market Road 534.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindDinero-NWS Spotter report of strong thunderstorm wind gust.
June 1997Flash FloodDinero-Sheriff reports of roadways flooded.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDinero-NWS spotter report of 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 1993HailDinero-Dime-size hail and larger was reported by the Sheriff's Offices in the southeastern part of the County.
June 2009HailDinero-no account filed
December 2002HailDinero-no account filed
January 1999HailDinero-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Live Oak 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
Mount Lucas2.8 miles12
Hideaway Hill4.5 miles12
Mikeska6.2 miles12
River Creek Acres6.7 miles12
Argenta7.2 miles11
Los Lomas7.3 miles12
Lagarto7.4 miles12
Peace Valley Harbor7.5 miles12

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 DineroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5278051The 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 1334369. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.