Clarksville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78521. It stands on Rio Grande. The Survey maps it on the Mouth of Rio Grande quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Clarksville within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1936 USGS Mouth Of Rio Grande quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Mouth Of Rio Grande quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Mouth Of Rio Grande quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Clarksville (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 966 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
27 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	6.3 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	HOPPER
2 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	240 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOCA BEACH
4 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	240 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOCA CHICA SOUTH
4 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	210 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOCA CHICA NORTH
26 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	131 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOCA CHICA
6 May 2007	Natural	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TURTLE LIGHTNING
19 April 2012	Arson/incendiarism	42 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOCA CHICA COMPLEX
9 December 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	STARSHIP SM8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Starbase	2.8 miles	10
Del Mar	3.7 miles	14
Monica	5.0 miles	10
Port Isabel	8.5 miles	14
Carretas Crossing	8.5 miles	15
Laguna Heights	10.0 miles	15
Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia	10.1 miles	15
South Padre Island	10.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034445. 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.