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Old Diana, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75640. It stands on Beachman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle.

Old Diana within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

347 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 347 fires within 5 miles of Old Diana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,461 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 burning254
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2

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 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 231
8 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service450 COMAND
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-0318
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6176
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 383
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1999Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Diana in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindOld Diana-Multiple trees were downed near FM 726 and Zinnia Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOld Diana-A tree was downed on 726 north of Hwy. 259 just south of Ore City.
April 2012HailOld Diana-Golfball sized hail was reported 12 miles east of Gilmer, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Diana2.2 miles12
Snow Hill2.6 miles12
Stamps2.6 miles12
Graceton3.0 miles12
Boxwood3.0 miles12
James3.3 miles12
Bethel3.5 miles12
Ashland4.0 miles12

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 Q122560087The 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 1378794. 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.