Basin Junction, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Alpine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79834. It lies near Rough Mountain. The Survey maps it on The Basin quadrangle.

Basin Junction within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1903 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000
1905 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS The Basin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1997 USGS The Basin quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Basin Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,768 acres in total. 37 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	37
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	1

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
18 September 2001	Natural	2.7 acres	Big Bend National Park	SMUGGLER
9 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	SOLO
29 August 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	TRANSFORMER
28 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	LONE MTN
21 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	KATERINE
11 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	GUN RANGE
4 July 2017	Natural	2.5 acres	Big Bend National Park	PAINT GAP
31 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	GREEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Panther Junction

Every fire 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
Panther Junction	2.8 miles	10
Onion Spring	6.1 miles	11
McKinney Springs	10.2 miles	11
Glenn Springs (historical)	13.3 miles	12
Study Butte	14.6 miles	16
Lunas	16.9 miles	15
Hot Springs	17.5 miles	10
Rio Grande Village	18.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377975. 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.