Doty, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Vidor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77662. The Survey maps it on the Texla quadrangle.

Doty within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1926 USGS Texla quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Texla quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orangefield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Texla quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Doty between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,358 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 38 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 burning	76
Arson/incendiarism	38
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	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 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Livingston Area	WOODVILLE - 9098
8 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Livingston Area	WOODVILLE - 9099
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 863
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	487 S 7
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 696
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 682
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	487 S 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Maple Crest Acres	2.5 miles	13
Lakewood	2.8 miles	13
Vidor	4.2 miles	15
Terry	4.2 miles	16
Stark	4.6 miles	13
Connell	4.8 miles	16
Pine Forest	4.9 miles	15
Coughlin	5.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378219. 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.