Chaffin Place, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Marfa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79843. The Survey maps it on the Chinati Peak quadrangle.

Chaffin Place within Presidio 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.

1896 USGS Shafter quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Presidio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Presidio quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Chinati Peak quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Presidio quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Presidio quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chaffin Place in 1998, burning about 55,375 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
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
30 May 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55,375 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CIBLO CREEK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Presidio County

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 Chaffin Place: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Zinc, Perlite, Lead, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burney Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
San Antonio Canyon Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Shely Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence	Tyuyamunite
Lanmont Pinto Canyon Mine	Perlite	Past Producer
Unnamed Mine	Perlite	Past Producer
Agua Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Runaway Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Unnamed Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Unnamed Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein

Every working 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
Ruidosa	11.7 miles	11
Las Lulas	13.0 miles	12
Chinati	13.4 miles	11
Shafter	13.8 miles	12
Pueblo Nuevo	14.5 miles	12
Adobes	16.1 miles	11
Candelaria	16.2 miles	11
Borrachio	17.8 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122540506

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378110. 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.