BlockDunns Fort, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77859. The Survey maps it on the Dunn Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Dunn Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
52 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Dunns Fort between 2006 and 2020, burning about 599 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TREE FIRE |
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0000039 |
| 14 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16-0000028 |
| 24 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-0005139 DICK ELLIOTT GRASS FIRE |
| 24 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7353 DICK ELLIOTT RD |
| 17 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JACK RABBIT |
| 16 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JACKRABBIT BRUSH AND RUBISH |
| 6 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0000027 |
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.
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 Q122569996 | 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 1379687. 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.