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Artesia Wells, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Cotulla census division. The Survey maps it on the Artesia Wells quadrangle. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Artesia Wells within La Salle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 13 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

45 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Artesia Wells between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,718 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
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service52 FIRE
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM63 SOUTH
4 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM63
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM63 GRASSFIRE
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM53 1/2 GRASSFIRE
14 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSMM50
10 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE MM57 CENTER MEDIAN

Every fire recorded in La Salle County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Artesia Wells in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2016Thunderstorm WindArtesia Wells$20,000Pictures submitted from the public showed large mesquite trees blown down. Roof damage occurred to a church.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindArtesia Wells-Small to medium sized branches were broken from trees near Artesia Wells.
August 2022FloodArtesia Wells-Major flooding occurred in southeast La Salle County as a flood wave from San Casamiro Creek moved through. Major flooding cut off extensive portions of the flood plain.
April 2016HailArtesia Wells-Dime sized hail occurred at Artesia Wells.
May 2015Flash FloodArtesia Wells-Farm to Market Road 624 was closed from Cotulla to the county line due to water over the road.
April 2015HailArtesia Wells-Quarter sized hail occurred near Artesia Wells.
July 2014Flash FloodArtesia Wells-Flooding was reported on Farm to Market Road 133 west of Artesia Wells.
May 1997HailArtesia Wells-Sheriff report of golfball sized hail.
May 2006HailArtesia Wells-no account filed
April 2003HailArtesia Wells-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Salle 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
Zamora Acres Colonia11.1 miles10
Cotulla11.1 miles10
Gardendale16.7 miles9
Encinal16.9 miles9
Woodward17.6 miles8
Los Angeles19.8 miles10
Millett21.3 miles9
Dull21.9 miles9

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 Artesia WellsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4797573The 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 1329777. 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.