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Duffau, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Duffau-Clairette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76457. It stands on Turkey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clairette quadrangle.

Duffau within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

163 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Duffau between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,346 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service111 GRASS 220
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service105
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009088
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2481/CR539
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR218/PR1649
13 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 204

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

4 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duffau in 4 storm reports in 2023: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023HailDuffau$50,000A public report indicated 2-inch diameter hail about 7 miles north of Hico.
April 2023HailDuffau$5,000A public report indicated golf ball sized hail about 5 miles north of Hico.
April 2023HailDuffau-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail 7 miles north-northwest of Hico.
May 2023HailDuffau-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Johnsville4.4 miles13
Three Way5.2 miles13
Clairette5.9 miles12
Selden6.2 miles13
Chalk Mountain7.7 miles15
Alexander9.9 miles12
Welcome Valley10.6 miles15
Stephenville13.5 miles15

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 DuffauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710449The 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 1334730. 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.