Altuda, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marathon census division. The Survey maps it on the Altuda quadrangle.

Altuda within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1923 USGS Altuda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Altuda quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Alpine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Altuda between 2006 and 2020, burning about 697 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
17 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PAISANO GRASS FIRE
8 July 2020	Natural	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEL NORTE
21 July 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALTUDA FIRE
27 May 2008	Natural	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ORD FIRE
23 April 2008	Natural	650 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAST HWY 90 FIRE
15 March 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 November 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 January 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAST 90 GRASSFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Altuda: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Molybdenum, Copper, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bird Mine	Silver, Lead, Molybdenum, Copper, Zinc	Producer	1885

Every working recorded in Brewster 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lenox	6.2 miles	13
Edwards Place	7.3 miles	10
Beatty Place	8.0 miles	10
Alpine	11.4 miles	14
Marathon	13.1 miles	12
Old Beekley Place	13.4 miles	12
Titley	14.3 miles	14
Youngblood Place	15.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377932. 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.