Dougherty, Texas Weather
Dougherty, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Dougherty, Rains County.
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About Dougherty, Texas
Dougherty lies low in the East Texas landscape, a place where the earth exhales a humid breath and the sky feels vast, often a bruised lavender at dusk. It lies 23.5 miles east-south-east of Greenville, TX (from Greenville, TX: bearing 122°T), and is situated 5.6 miles north of Emory. The terrain here is a gentle rolling, a tapestry of scrub oak and pine, interspersed with fields that lie fallow for long stretches, their dry stalks whispering in the breeze. The air, particularly in the late afternoon, carries the scent of sun-baked earth and the distant hum of cicadas, a sound that seems to hold the very stillness of the place. Ponds, often more like wide ditches filled with murky water, dot the fields, reflecting the immense sky and the occasional heron standing sentinel, its patience a mirror to the slow, deliberate pulse of Dougherty. The history of Dougherty is etched not in grand monuments but in the weathered planks of its few remaining structures and the stories passed down like heirlooms. This was a place that drew its lifeblood from the land, a time when cotton fields stretched to the horizon and the rhythm of the seasons dictated the lives of its inhabitants. Though the agricultural roots run deep, the local economy now leans more on the quiet persistence of small businesses and the steady flow of traffic on the nearby highways, a testament to the resilience of those who call Dougherty home. There's a palpable sense of enduring, a quiet strength in the way the community carries its past without being burdened by it, a subtle acknowledgment of the lives that have bloomed and faded on this particular patch of Texas soil.
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| Location | Dougherty, Rains County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 32.955674°N, 95.769129°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 75440, 79231 |
| Area Code | 972, 469, 806 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dougherty, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dougherty, Texas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Dougherty includes coordinates 32.955674°N, 95.769129°W, situated in Rains County. ZIP code 75440, 79231. Telephone area code: 972, 469, 806. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
