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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.

Old Dime Box within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

84 since 2004

Regional 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Natural1
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 424 & CR433
4 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAILROAD CR430
4 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRICK FOSTER
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR403/HW21
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE BAKER HUES
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR426

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Flash FloodOld Dime Box$5,000Rainfall 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 1999HailOld Dime Box-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Dime Box2.6 miles10
Doak Springs5.8 miles9
Leo6.5 miles9
Loebau6.6 miles9
Lincoln8.2 miles9
Lexington8.4 miles15
Pleasant Grove (historical)8.5 miles9
Sweet Home8.6 miles10

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 BoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7083847The 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.