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Dixon, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75402. It stands on Timber Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenville SE quadrangle.

Dixon within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

179 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Dixon between 2005 and 2020, burning about 855 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1564
25 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1125 FM 1737
23 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4508 CR 3323
23 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2101
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service99 MM FIRE
20 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5648 CR 3521
2 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5141 CR 3117 LONE OAK ASSIST FIRE
19 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5648 CR 3521

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixon in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDixon$1,000A trained spotter reported power poles broken and large tree limbs blown down approximately 10 miles southeast of the city of Greenville, TX.

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Center Point2.4 miles6
Wieland4.2 miles6
Weiland4.3 miles6
Mount Bethel4.6 miles6
Meadowview5.2 miles6
Ardis Heights5.4 miles8
Mineral Heights5.5 miles6
Greenville6.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378215. 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.