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Buena Vista, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78221. The Survey maps it on the Southton quadrangle.

Buena Vista 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

76 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Buena Vista between 1994 and 2018, burning about 385 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2011Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresSan Antonio Missions National Historic ParkESPADA DAM FIRE
9 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 August 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 August 2012Naturalunder an acreSan Antonio Missions National Historic ParkSAN JUAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buena Vista: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite. 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
Construction Products DivisionVermiculiteProducer

Every working 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
Earle1.7 miles12
Cassin1.8 miles12
Losoya2.6 miles10
Southton2.8 miles12
Hilltop4.4 miles12
Bergs Mill4.4 miles12
Thelma4.5 miles9
Terrell Wells5.5 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 Buena VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113630113The 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 1353176. 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.