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Casa Blanca, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78383. The Survey maps it on the Sandia quadrangle.

Casa Blanca within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

240 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Casa Blanca between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,612 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined105
Debris and open burning97
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM JEFF MYERS
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 624 AND CR 353
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 304
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1100 FM 1540
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 359 AND 227
23 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 70
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service417 JENIFER LOOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casa Blanca in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2015Flash FloodCasa Blanca$100,000Widespread flooding occurred around the city of Orange Grove. The Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Department reported water reached a few homes in the town. |Numerous county roads were closed from Orange Grove to Sandia. Water flowed across Highway 359 near Sandia.
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Casa Blanca$1,000An EF-0 tornado with 75 mph winds touched down 3 miles north of Orange Grove. The tornado moved west across Farm to Market Road 738. The tornado snapped a few branches 3 to 4 inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Jim Wells 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
K-Bar Ranch1.3 miles8
Silver Spur Estates Colonia1.6 miles8
El Camino Al Lago Colonia1.8 miles8
Hodges Addition Colonia1.8 miles12
Sandy Bluff Colonia1.9 miles8
Wadeside Addition Colonia1.9 miles12
Sandia2.0 miles12
K-Bar-J Estates Colonia2.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381014. 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.