Cornudas, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dell City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79847. The Survey maps it on the Cornudas quadrangle. It stands 4,308 feet above sea level.

Cornudas within Hudspeth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Cerro Diablo quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Cornudas quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Dell City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornudas in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornudas	$10,000	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Cornudas	$1,000	no account filed
August 2022	Flash Flood	Cornudas	-	Water was flowing quickly near a residence. Water was up to Highway 180 and could have been flowing over it.
July 2017	Hail	Cornudas	-	Reported at Border Patrol checkpoint.
August 2016	Hail	Cornudas	-	Motorists encountered half dollar sized hail about 2 miles west of the U.S. Border Patrol check point.
November 2016	Hail	Cornudas	-	Hail reported at the Cornudas Cafe. Hail fell for 10 minutes.
May 2012	Hail	Cornudas	-	Hail was reported two miles west of Loma Linda.
May 2012	Hail	Cornudas	-	Hail was carpeting the ground about 4 miles east-southeast of Loma Linda.
April 2004	Hail	Cornudas	-	An off-duty National Weather Service employee "investigating" a supercell reported a motorist had a windshield broken from tennis ball size hail west of Cornudas.
July 2015	Hail	Cornudas	-	no account filed
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Cornudas	-	no account filed
July 2004	Flash Flood	Cornudas	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Cornudas	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Cornudas	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Cornudas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hudspeth 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
Dell City	18.0 miles	8
Salt Flat	20.2 miles	7
Coyote Place	20.5 miles	10
Brownfeld Corner	22.9 miles	8
Loma Linda Estates Colonia	25.6 miles	11
Mile High	35.2 miles	12
Finlay	36.9 miles	11
Iser	37.0 miles	12

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.

Wikipedia article on Cornudas	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5171917	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 1379595. 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.

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.