Dunbar, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75440. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Emory South quadrangle.

Dunbar 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 South quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dunbar between 1996 and 2019, burning about 516 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
20 September 2010	Natural	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 173
22 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMERAN ASHBY
16 August 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 108
9 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	55 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 July 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 19
25 April 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-085
20 April 1996	Debris and open burning	250 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 March 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010-116

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunbar in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2026	Flash Flood	Dunbar	$100,000	Emergency management reported that several county roads were flooded and some sustained culvert damage or failures, including County Roads 1495, 1325, 3425, 2350, and 1150. Additionally, a section of County Road 2300 was flooded due to a small private earthen dam being overtopped due to the locally heavy rain.
April 2017	Tornado (EF2)	Dunbar	$70,000	This tornado was a continuation from Van Zandt County. This tornado began nearly as the last tornado dissipated to the south and west. The parent supercell cycled another tornado about a mile to the east and northeast of the previous storm. This tornado quickly grew to a large tornado, becoming slightly less than one mile wide at its widest point. The tornado was at the strongest near Interstate 20 and FM 17 just north of Canton. The survey crews found continuous damage between Canton and Fruitvale, and then additional damage as far north as Emory, and Lake Fork. Several homes, businesses, and farm buildings were damaged or destroyed in the 40 mile continuous damage path. This tornado occurred for over an hour, and spanned most of Van Zandt, and nearly all of Rains Counties during the 80 minute track.
October 2019	Hail	Dunbar	-	A trained spotter reported half-dollar sized hail along County Road 1495 approximately 6 miles south-southwest of the city of Emory, TX.

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
Willow Springs	2.7 miles	14
Rocky Point Center	2.9 miles	14
Smyrna	3.2 miles	14
Flats	5.0 miles	14
Emory	5.1 miles	14
Ginger	5.2 miles	15
Bellview	5.6 miles	15
Prospect	6.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034701. 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.