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Blanconia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Beeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78102. The Survey maps it on the Blanconia quadrangle.

Blanconia within Bee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Blanconia between 2006 and 2018, burning about 956 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 August 2016Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-13
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 January 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
21 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHARCO ROAD
2 January 2008Debris and open burning700 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePLUMMER RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanconia in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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 2019HailBlanconia$10,000Hen egg sized hail occurred in Blanconia.
April 2015Funnel CloudBlanconia-Storm chaser reported a brief funnel cloud as the storm approached the Bee and Refugio county line.
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Blanconia-Tornado was on the ground in an open brush field. No visible damage was reported.|

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Street Area Colonia16.0 miles9
Yougeen16.3 miles9
Hidden Acres Colonia16.4 miles9
Old Houston Highway Colonia16.6 miles9
Skidmore17.6 miles9
Beeville17.8 miles9
Papalote18.6 miles9
Old Airport Road Colonia19.0 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 BlanconiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113012478The 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 1378017. 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.