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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Eden quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Eden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1924 USGS Eden 1-a quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Stacy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Doole quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2007Regional 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 use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOOLE/765 |
| 27 August 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE BITTY RANCH |
| 23 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 356 |
| 2 July 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 503 N |
| 22 March 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4362 GRASS FIRE |
| 14 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 503/765 |
| 2 December 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 November 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 195 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Hail | Doole | $10,000 | An 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doole | - | A mesonet observation station reported a 59 mph wind gust. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Doole | - | 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doole | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a barn, uprooted a tree and broke large mesquite tree limbs. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Doole | - | 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 2002 | Hail | Doole | - | The public reported golfball size hail on the Concho and McCulloch county line. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Doole | - | The supercell thunderstorm in Concho County, entered western McCulloch County and produced golfball size hail near Doole. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doole | - | WInd gust to 70 mph |
| June 2010 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Doole | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stacy | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Salt Gap | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Pear Valley | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| Waldrip | 9.9 miles | 14 | |
| Lohn | 11.2 miles | 13 | |
| Fife | 11.4 miles | 14 | |
| Walker Crossing | 12.8 miles | 15 | |
| Melvin | 13.9 miles | 12 |
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 Doole | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5297023 | The 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.






