BlockDug Ford, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Throckmorton census division. It lies near Sand Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Hoover Mountain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hoover Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Haskell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Dug Ford between 2005 and 2019, burning about 4,496 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STONE RANCH FIRE |
| 3 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CIRCLE S RANCH |
| 25 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,024 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MATTHEWS RANCH FIRE |
| 6 April 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 86 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MATTHEWS FIRE |
| 7 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 November 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 November 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 October 2019 | Natural | 733 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TECUMSEH RANCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| M K Crossing | 0.9 miles | 7 | |
| Paint Crossing | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Hayford Crossing | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Reynolds Crossing | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Gentry Crossing | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Bartholomew Crossing | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| McKeichan Crossing | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Coody Crossing | 7.5 miles | 7 |
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 Q122552579 | 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 1378233. 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.