BlockBefore

Atascosa, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the San Antonio West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78002. It lies near Black Hill. The Survey maps it on the Macdona quadrangle. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Atascosa within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

170 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Atascosa between 2005 and 2019, burning about 2,224 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Debris and open burning65
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHEPHERD RD & HWY 35
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEARSALL RD
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEVENS RD
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID LYTLE & NATALIA CANCELED
30 August 2019Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS. LOOP 1604 W
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 35 & BENTON CITY RD IN LYTLE
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceK STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Atascosa: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General. 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
Fm 1604 Quarry & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Meyer Pottery PitClayPast ProducerClay

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atascosa in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2012Tornado (EF2)Atascosa4 hurtA supercell thunderstorm moved through southeastern Medina County and into southwestern Bexar County and produced three tornadoes. The first tornado touched down in Devine, the second in Natalia, and the third in Bexar County. The tornado in Bexar County destroyed eight homes (four single family and four mobile), caused major damage on five others, and minor damage on two more. Four people were injured by these storms in Bexar County.
May 2017HailAtascosa-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the town of Atascosa.
May 2016Flash FloodAtascosa-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Macdona-Lacoste Rd. near the Medina County line.
May 2010Flash FloodAtascosa-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which flooded and closed FM471 at the Medina River.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindAtascosa-Large limbs were reported broken from trees.
May 2013HailAtascosa-no account filed
May 2012HailAtascosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bexar 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
Bexar3.7 miles10
Mann Crossing4.6 miles12
Macdona4.6 miles12
Somerset4.8 miles10
Von Ormy4.9 miles12
Garza Crossing6.4 miles13
Valley Hi8.8 miles12
Heafer9.5 miles13

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 AtascosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4812860The 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 1379369. 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.