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Dothan, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76437. The Survey maps it on the Bernie Lake quadrangle.

Dothan within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

52 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Dothan between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,519 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 September 2014Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTARR FIRE
10 September 2010Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAGGARD
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service329 IH 20
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136 FIRE
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGILL
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI/20 320
24 August 2019Natural85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOSTER
13 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILLIPS RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland 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
Mitchell3.5 miles9
Scranton5.8 miles9
Cisco6.3 miles13
Nimrod8.4 miles9
Pleasant Hill11.0 miles13
Romney12.6 miles13
Mangum13.5 miles12
Mountain Top13.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377166. 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.