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Buena Vista, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the El Paso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79922. The Survey maps it on the Smeltertown quadrangle.

Buena Vista within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Buena Vista: 9 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, Clay, 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
Eagle Mine and MillClay, Limestone, GeneralProducer
Edgar Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
El Paso Quarry & PlantSilicaProducer
El Paso Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
International Hortense Mill MineClayProducerSedimentary
Courchesne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
McKelligon Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Southwestern Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone, Rhyolite

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Courchesne1.1 miles18
Coronado Hills1.5 miles18
La Guna1.6 miles18
Smeltertown1.9 miles18
Mission Hills2.7 miles21
Montoya3.6 miles18
El Paso4.4 miles21
Green Acres Colonia5.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1353177. 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.

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.