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Divot, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dilley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78017. It lies near Panther Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Divot quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Divot within Frio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

51 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Divot between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2,104 acres in total. None 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4500, 1 MILE FROM FM 1581
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 117 15 MILES WEST OF IH35
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremony150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 117 @ FM 1581
30 September 2005Debris and open burning250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4538 @ CR 4629
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1581 @ FM 117
30 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 117 @ CR 4520

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Frio County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Divot in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
September 2017FloodDivot-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flooding closing FM 117 northwest of Divot.
September 2017FloodDivot-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flooding closing SH 85 between Dilley and Big Wells.
May 2009HailDivot-There were reports of baseball size hail along County Road 4443.
July 2007Flash FloodDivot-General 2 to 3 inch rain totals were reported over Karnes, Atascosa, Frio, and Zavala Counties. Highest amounts in Frio County were 5 inches between Divot and Derby. Flash flooding closed FM117, US85 and FM1581.

Every storm recorded in Frio 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
Parks Corner Windmill3.0 miles9
Hilltop6.5 miles9
Hilltop Colonia6.5 miles9
Derby Colonia6.7 miles11
Derby6.9 miles11
Dilley8.1 miles9
Cude Crossing Windmill8.5 miles10
Melon9.4 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122598739The 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 1379668. 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.