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Allamoore, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sierra Blanca census division. The Survey maps it on the Allamoore quadrangle.

Allamoore within Hudspeth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Allamoore between 2008 and 2014, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 June 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 NEAR MP 126
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service135 FIRE
25 May 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 NEAR MP 122
20 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hudspeth County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Allamoore: 28 producers, 25 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 unknowns. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cooper Hill ProspectCopper, UraniumOccurrenceVein
HolleyStoneUnknown
Texas & Pacific Rr Number 1 QuarryTalc-Soapstone, AsbestosProducerMetamorphic
Allamoore Quarry No. 89Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerRhyolite
Allamore QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Anaconda Number Two ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Blue Bird ProspectCopperProspect
Bluebird ProspectSilverOccurrenceVein
Buck Springs ProspectSilverOccurrenceVein
Unnamed ProspectSilver, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hudspeth County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allamoore in 1 storm report in 1997: 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
June 1997HailAllamoore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hudspeth 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
Crusher2.3 miles12
Eagle Flat7.2 miles11
Scotts Crossing10.9 miles12
Arispe15.2 miles13
Old Patterson Place18.2 miles11
Sierra Blanca19.9 miles13
Etholen23.7 miles13
Indian Hot Springs24.1 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 AllamooreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4730433The 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 1380817. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.