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Dirgin, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tatum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75691. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tatum quadrangle.

Dirgin within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 16 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Dirgin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,383 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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 burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHORACE JAMES
8 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 116
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUMINANT MINING
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6188

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dirgin in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDirgin-Tree downed on Highway 43 approximately 5 miles southwest of Tatum.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDirgin-Several trees downed near Martin Creek Lake State Park.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDirgin-Power lines downed on Highway 43 near Martin Creek Lake.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Dirgin-This was the second tornado of an east to northeast moving supercell thunderstorm. This EF-1 tornado, with estimated maximum winds of 104 mph, moved over Martin Creek Lake and eventually into western Panola County. Most of the damage consisted of snapped and uprooted trees. The total path length in Rusk County was approximately two miles before entering Western Panola County.
April 2016Flash FloodDirgin-Highway 43 from just east of Farm to Market Road 1716 to west of Farm to Market Road 1716 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Liberty3.0 miles12
Stewart4.2 miles16
Mayflower5.2 miles16
Tatum5.6 miles16
Oak Hill5.7 miles16
Church Hill6.1 miles12
Chalk Hill7.4 miles16
Chapman7.8 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 DirginAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116371148The 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 1379667. 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.