Old Dime Box, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lincoln-Dime Box census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77853. The Survey maps it on the Deanville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1919 USGS Dime Box quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Deanville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
84 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Old Dime Box between 2004 and 2020, burning about 532 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR 424 & CR433 |
| 4 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAILROAD CR430 |
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RICK FOSTER |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR403/HW21 |
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE BAKER HUES |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR426 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Dime Box in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2000: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Old Dime Box | $5,000 | Rainfall of up to 5 inches caused widespread flash flooding of low water crossings in the city of Hondo. Water was also reported in homes due to wave action as cars drove through the flooded streets. |
| January 1999 | Hail | Old Dime Box | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dime Box | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Doak Springs | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Leo | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Loebau | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Lexington | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Grove (historical) | 8.5 miles | 9 | |
| Sweet Home | 8.6 miles | 10 |
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 Old Dime Box | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7083847 | 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 1375270. 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.



