Dreyfoos, Texas

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Canadian South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79046. The Survey maps it on the Dreyfoos quadrangle.

Dreyfoos within Hemphill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Dreyfoos quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Pampa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dreyfoos between 2006 and 2012, burning about 1,041 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 August 2006	Natural	31 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LISCOMB/HEMPHILL
23 May 2010	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IV RANCH
15 April 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2758 8 E. OF GLAZIER

Every fire recorded in Hemphill 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
Springers Ranch (historical)	10.9 miles	6
Glazier	11.9 miles	6
Gem	14.7 miles	5
Clear Creek	15.5 miles	5
Canadian	18.8 miles	5
Mendota	27.5 miles	5

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.

Wikidata item Q122541809

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 1379680. 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.