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Doole, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Melvin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76836. The Survey maps it on the Doole quadrangle. It stands 1,509 feet above sea level.

Doole within McCulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Doole between 2007 and 2016, burning about 344 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOOLE/765
27 August 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE BITTY RANCH
23 July 2010Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 356
2 July 2011Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service503 N
22 March 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4362 GRASS FIRE
14 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service503/765
2 December 2008Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 November 2007Recreation and ceremony195 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCulloch County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doole in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 3 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
May 2001HailDoole$10,000An isolated severe storm dropped hail up to tennis ball size across extreme northwest McCulloch County. The hail broke all of the double pane windows and a skylight on one side of a house, allowing rain water to enter.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindDoole-A mesonet observation station reported a 59 mph wind gust.
April 2021HailDoole-Facebook photo of hail, with description saying that marble to baseball sized hail occurred near the intersection of County Road 330 and County Road 356 southeast of Doole.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindDoole-Damaging thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a barn, uprooted a tree and broke large mesquite tree limbs.
May 2003HailDoole-Baseball size hail from this supercell broke numerous windows and vehicle windshields in and around the town of Doole on the McCulloch and Concho county line. In addition, 100% of the wheat crop was destroyed by the large hail.
May 2002HailDoole-The public reported golfball size hail on the Concho and McCulloch county line.
May 2002HailDoole-The supercell thunderstorm in Concho County, entered western McCulloch County and produced golfball size hail near Doole.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindDoole-WInd gust to 70 mph
June 2010HailDoole-no account filed
May 2005HailDoole-no account filed
May 2003HailDoole-no account filed
April 2000HailDoole-no account filed
April 2000HailDoole-no account filed
March 1999HailDoole-no account filed
May 1999HailDoole-no account filed
May 1998HailDoole-no account filed
June 1998HailDoole-no account filed
March 1997HailDoole-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCulloch 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
Stacy5.6 miles14
Salt Gap6.3 miles14
Pear Valley8.1 miles13
Waldrip9.9 miles14
Lohn11.2 miles13
Fife11.4 miles14
Walker Crossing12.8 miles15
Melvin13.9 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 DooleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5297023The 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 1356161. 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.