Boquillas Crossing, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1959 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alpine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79834. It lies near Ernst Valley. The Survey maps it on the Rio Grande Village quadrangle. It stands 1,831 feet above sea level.

Boquillas Crossing within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Boquillas quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Rio Grande Village quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Boquillas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Boquillas Crossing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
8 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	HOT SPRINGS CANYON
5 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	AMPITHEATE
10 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	13 acres	Big Bend National Park	BARKER
26 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.9 acres	Big Bend National Park	MARUFO
19 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	BOQUILLAS
12 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	TUNNEL
28 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Big Bend National Park	OVERLOOK
14 June 1997	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	ELF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boquillas Crossing: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ojo Caliente	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Ojo Caliente	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Unnamed Occurrences	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

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
Rio Grande Village	1.0 miles	10
Hot Springs	2.5 miles	10
San Vicente Crossing	5.5 miles	12
Casa de Piedra	8.3 miles	12
Rooneys Place	9.2 miles	12
Comptons	10.0 miles	12
Glenn Springs (historical)	10.9 miles	12
Solis	12.0 miles	12

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 Boquillas Crossing	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710342	The 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 1385421. 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.