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Durango, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76656. The Survey maps it on the Belfalls quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Durango within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

15 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Durango between 2005 and 2018, burning about 362 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2011Smoking200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEAKLY
5 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2016Arson/incendiarism60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 483 DURANGO FIRE
16 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIKES FIRE
30 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUMP GROUND FIRE
27 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 463
12 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durango in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDurango$100,000Emergency Manager reports roof damage to multiple structures including a single family home near Durango, TX.
June 2023HailDurango$3,000A ham radio operator reported golf ball size hail on CR 478 in Durango.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDurango-Amateur radio reported a wind gust of 78 MPH near Durango, TX.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindDurango-HAM radio operators estimated thunderstorm outflow wind gusts up to 70 mph approximately 1 mile east of Belfalls.
September 1996HailDurango-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Cego3.3 miles12
Dott3.9 miles14
Blevins4.3 miles12
Lott5.0 miles13
Westphalia6.0 miles13
Chilton6.3 miles14
Mooreville6.7 miles15
Travis8.3 miles13

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 DurangoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5316209The 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 1356473. 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.