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Dobbin, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77356. It stands on Little Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plantersville quadrangle. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Dobbin within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Dobbin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
30 September 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKRUEGER
21 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 410
16 September 2004Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 24
6 August 2001Arson/incendiarism60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 32
5 August 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17249 FM 1774

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dobbin in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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
January 1998Tornado (F0)Dobbin$10,000Tornado moved in from Grimes County along FM 149. Barn roof damaged 3 miles east of Richards, tree limb blown through metal of a car door. Storm continued moving east-northeast downing trees to the Montgomery/Walker County line near FM 1791.
April 1997HailDobbin$5,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindDobbin$5,000no account filed
January 1998HailDobbin$1,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDobbin-Trees were downed near the Clark Road and Jackson Road intersection.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDobbin-A tree was downed onto a road.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindDobbin-Numerous trees were blown down.
January 2007Flash FloodDobbin-Flooding at the intersection of FM 1486 and CR 212 with around two feet of water on road.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Bobville1.3 miles11
Peel Junction3.6 miles14
Gary3.8 miles12
Montgomery4.5 miles14
Dacus5.7 miles11
Keenan7.6 miles12
Karen8.5 miles12
Honea9.9 miles13

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 DobbinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5286530The 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 1334420. 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.