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Duster, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the De Leon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76444. The Survey maps it on the Duster quadrangle.

Duster within Comanche 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

44 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Duster between 2005 and 2018, burning about 408 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural1

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
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTUMPER FIRE
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAYLOR FIRE
11 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGLOVER
1 August 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service512
6 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service679 FIRE
26 July 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUCK HOUSE FIRE
15 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOBBCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duster in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 12 injuries. 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
October 1993Tornado (F2)Duster12 hurt, $5,000,000Ten houses were destroyed, and 12 persons were injured.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindDuster$50,000Wind damage occurred to houses, and trees were blown down.
April 2015HailDuster$15,000Baseball sized hail was reported 7 miles west of De Leon; near Duster.
April 2015HailDuster$10,000Softball sized hail smashed at least one windshield in Duster.
April 2011HailDuster$3,000no account filed
April 2013HailDuster-Quarter sized hail was reported in Duster which is west-northwest of DeLeon.
September 2001HailDuster-no account filed
September 1996HailDuster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Beattie4.7 miles12
Rucker5.7 miles12
Sipe Springs5.8 miles13
De Leon7.5 miles12
Stag Creek7.7 miles13
Downing8.7 miles12
Vandyke11.0 miles13
Comyn11.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378237. 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.