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Doucette, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Woodville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75942. It stands on East Branch Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodville quadrangle. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Doucette within Tyler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Doucette between 1992 and 2019, burning about 872 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 681
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 664
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 714
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 624
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNK
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 218

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tyler County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doucette in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2019Flash FloodDoucette$100,000The Tyler County dispatch reported water covering some roadways from Chester to Colmesneil. 5.28 inches of rain was recorded during the event at Colmesneil.
October 2013Flash FloodDoucette$40,000Heavy rain in training thunderstorms fell across Tyler County and neighboring Jasper County for multiple hours. Near 6 inches fell during the event. High rainfall rates produced quickly rising water that flooded some streets around Woodville and briefly flooded the lower portion of one home with an inch and a half of water. Minor flooding was also reported at Wolf Creek at Highway 96.
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Doucette$25,000The tornado began roughly 0.5 miles west of HWY 287 where several trees were damaged along with some outbuildings. The tornado then continued northeast where it damaged a home, an outbuilding was destroyed, and several pine trees were snapped at the trunk. Two by fours were impaled into the roof of the home as well. Roughly 30% of roof was peeled off of the home. The tornado then continued east towards HWY 287 where tree damage was found near Little Cypress Creek. This was the end of the Little Cypress Tornado. Max estimated wind was 95 mph.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindDoucette$5,000The sheriffs department reported a large tree down across Highway 69 North.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindDoucette$4,000The Sheriff department reported trees down near Kirkland Spring off highway 287. A public report was also received of trees and power outages around Warren. The power outages lasted several hours.
April 2024HailDoucette-The emergency manager passed along a report of golf ball sized hail.
May 2017Funnel CloudDoucette-A report of a funnel cloud was made from between Colmsneil and Woodville.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindDoucette-Tyler County Sheriffs Department reported widespread wind gusts in excess of 60 mph with a severe thunderstorm. Hail was also reported, however the size was unknown.
April 2009HailDoucette-Tyler County Sheriff Office reported penny size hail 4 miles north of Woodville.
June 2007HailDoucette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tyler 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
Woodville3.1 miles12
Magnolia Hills3.8 miles12
Dies Community4.4 miles12
Haralson Lakes4.6 miles12
Colmesneil6.2 miles12
Cima8.5 miles12
Emille9.0 miles11
Hillister10.7 miles13

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 DoucetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5300208The 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 1356206. 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.