Casa de Piedra, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alpine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79834. It lies near Sierra San Vincente. The Survey maps it on the Solis quadrangle.

Casa de Piedra within Brewster 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.

1903 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000
1905 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Solis quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Casa de Piedra between 1997 and 2015, burning about 320 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 July 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	PIEDRA
25 July 2015	Natural	62 acres	Big Bend National Park	CROSSING
10 May 1998	Debris and open burning	39 acres	Big Bend National Park	MOM'S DAY
21 April 2000	Smoking	23 acres	Big Bend National Park	S.VICENTE
25 March 1997	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Big Bend National Park	TEST RUN
10 February 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Big Bend National Park	SAN VICENTE1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster 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 Casa de Piedra: 1 occurrence. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Vincente Sierra San Norte	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite

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
Rooneys Place	0.9 miles	12
Comptons	1.7 miles	12
San Vicente Crossing	2.9 miles	12
Solis	3.7 miles	12
Solis Landing	4.8 miles	12
Glenn Springs (historical)	6.4 miles	12
Hot Springs	6.5 miles	10
Rio Grande Village	7.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379513. 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.