Dunlap, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Paducah North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79248. The Survey maps it on the Dunlap quadrangle.

Dunlap within Cottle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Dunlap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Childress quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Dunlap between 2005 and 2016, burning about 2,309 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GARRISON FIRE
6 September 2008	Debris and open burning	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROL BURN ASSIST
10 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	10 MILES NORTH HWY 83
8 August 2011	Natural	1,300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RUSSELL COMPLEX FIRE
26 August 2009	Natural	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE - FM 3256
20 July 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottle County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunlap in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2016	Hail	Dunlap	$10,000	A supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of severe hail up to the size of baseballs about 12 miles north of Paducah to quarter size hail in Swearingen. Some of the Paducah volunteer fire department's vehicles were damaged by the hail.
May 2012	Hail	Dunlap	$400	A hailswath occurred from 8N Paducah to about 6NE Paducah. Large and even giant hail to the size of softballs was witnessed by Paducah fire department personnel and an off-duty NWS employee. These giant hailstones fell about 50 feet apart from each thereby limiting the extent of damage. However, one motorist, while stopping to change a flat tire north of Paducah, reported damage after a hailstone of at least tennis ball size cracked their windshield.
June 2018	Hail	Dunlap	-	The Paducah Fire Department reported hail between the size of quarters and golf balls along US Highway 83 north of Paducah.
May 2017	Tornado (EFU)	Dunlap	-	A storm chaser reported a brief tornado touchdown near US Highway 83 east of Cee Vee. No damage was reported, therefore an EF-Unknown rating was assigned.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	A storm chaser reported a tree lying across U.S. Highway 83 along with several downed branches.

Every storm recorded in Cottle 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
Jacobs (historical)	6.1 miles	8
Coleyville	7.8 miles	8
Swearingen	7.9 miles	7
Paducah	8.9 miles	8
Cee Vee	9.7 miles	8
Ogden	9.8 miles	8
Baker	10.7 miles	8
Valley View	11.1 miles	8

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 Dunlap	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127691293	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 1379686. 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.