Candelaria, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marfa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79843. The Survey maps it on the Candelaria quadrangle.

Candelaria within Presidio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1896 USGS San Carlos quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Candelaria quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Candelaria between 2013 and 2014, burning about 12 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
Smoking	5

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
7 June 2014	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RIVER BANK FIRE
7 April 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE W FM 170
22 April 2014	Smoking	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CANDELARIA OLD STORE BRUSH FIRE
29 March 2014	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	W FM 170 BRUSH FIRE
25 February 2013	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 170 W BRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Pueblo Nuevo

Every fire recorded in Presidio County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Candelaria in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2013	Hail	Candelaria	-	A thunderstorm moved over Presidio County and produced penny sized hail nine miles west southwest of Valentine.
June 2005	Hail	Candelaria	-	A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported nickel size hail in Candelaria.
June 2018	Hail	Candelaria	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presidio 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
Pueblo Nuevo	1.7 miles	12
Las Lulas	7.8 miles	12
Ruidosa	10.7 miles	11
Chaffin Place	16.2 miles	12
Porvenir	21.1 miles	12
Chinati	22.1 miles	11
Adobes	27.1 miles	11
Ryan	28.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377164. 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.