Dougherty, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75472. The Survey maps it on the Emory North quadrangle.

Dougherty within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1956 USGS Emory quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Emory North quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Dougherty between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1,040 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
Debris and open burning	20
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	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 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 119
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 599
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 275 SOUTH
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ASSIST WILDLAND FIRE
29 August 2005	Natural	450 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORTH TX - 9
7 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	170 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHIGGER RIDGE RANCH FIRE
7 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ARBALA
28 July 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORTH BRANCH - 134

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dougherty in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
November 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Dougherty	$20,000	A tornado started in northern Rains County crossing FM 514 near Daugherty. In this area, damage to a carport was noted along with damage to large trees. The tornado moved northeast causing notable tree damage to the Clifton Cemetery. The tornado continued northeast into southern Hopkins County where its track was traced by tree damage. Additional information on the tornado track in Hopkins County can found in a separate entry. Video evidence shows this tornado lifted just east of Hopkins County Road 1159 before the next tornado started. Maximum estimated winds were 100 mph.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Dougherty	$15,000	One water rescue was performed during the morning hours of the 3rd and several county roads were covered in water. Of note, CR 1325 near Woodbury Creek was underwater and CR 1275 at Brushy Creek was underwater as both creeks overflowed their banks. Woodbury Creek also flooded farms and ranches along its banks.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dougherty	$5,000	Numerous trees were knocked down on the west side of Lake Fork, and also on Hwy 19, CR 3150, CR 3325, and CR 4400.
April 2016	Hail	Dougherty	-	Fire and rescue reported quarter sized hail near Highway 19 North and CR 3417.
May 2009	Flood	Dougherty	-	Several county roads and areas remained under water through the night. Several roads and areas were flooded by Woodbury Creek and Brushy Creek which overflowed their banks.

Every storm recorded in Rains 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
County Line	1.6 miles	14
Richland	3.1 miles	14
Shady Grove	3.8 miles	16
Shotgun Crossing	4.1 miles	16
Prospect	4.8 miles	14
Poole	5.4 miles	16
Emory	5.6 miles	14
Point	5.7 miles	14

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 Dougherty	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5301103	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 1378202. 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.