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Dolan, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Zavalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75980. It stands on Turpentine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rockland quadrangle.

Dolan within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Dolan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,381 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 35 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 871
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8066
5 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasWIGGLE
4 September 2000Natural5.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasROCK HOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Dolan: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Silica, Clay, Lignite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
BrowndellSilicaPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zavalla MillClay, LigniteProducer
Bennett-Clark PitBentonitePast ProducerBentonite
Dresser Minerals PitBentoniteProducer
Miller PitBentonitePast ProducerSedimentary
Southern Clay Prod Bentonite PitBentoniteProducer
Unnamed PitBentonitePast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitBentonitePast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Angelina County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dolan in 2 storm reports in 2017: 2 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
August 2017Flash FloodDolan-Polly Branch Road was closed due to flooding.
August 2017Flash FloodDolan-Old Johnson School Road was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Angelina 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
Nancy1.2 miles16
Martin3.3 miles16
Zavalla4.9 miles15
Manning6.5 miles15
Shawnee Prairie8.7 miles15
Shawnee9.4 miles15
Concord9.8 miles15
Monterey10.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381777. 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.