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Cestohowa, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Falls City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78113. It stands on Casiano Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kosciusko quadrangle.

Cestohowa within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

75 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Cestohowa between 2005 and 2020, burning about 406 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
Equipment and vehicle use35
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR260
29 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDANIEL OLINICK
2 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEPHEN MOCZYGEMBA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Cestohowa: 6 producers, 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Laskowki PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Panna Maria East MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Panna Maria West MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Brysch PitUraniumProducer
Brysch ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Ft Worth Natl PitUraniumProducer
Jaskinia ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Kopecki MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Kotzur MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Kotzur PitUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cestohowa in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2018HailCestohowa-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail near Cestohowa.
March 2015Flash FloodCestohowa-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. One foot of water over the roadway closed FM887 between Falls City and Pawelekville and FM81 was closed due to flooding between Helena and Runge.
February 2018HailCestohowa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Karnes 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
Pawelekville2.9 miles10
Panna Maria4.1 miles9
Hobson4.5 miles9
Falls City4.8 miles12
Harmony6.8 miles10
Helena7.1 miles9
Mayo7.3 miles9
Conquista Crossing8.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1354240. 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.

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.