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Courchesne, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It lies in ZIP code area 79922. The Survey maps it on the Smeltertown quadrangle.

Courchesne within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Courchesne in 2000, burning under an acre 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
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
13 January 2000Smokingunder an acreChamizal National MonumentBERMUDA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso 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 Courchesne: 10 producers, 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. 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
(Facility) El Paso Copper SmelterCopper, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
(Facility) El Paso Lead SmelterLead, Smelter, Cadmium, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid, ZincPlant
Eagle Mine and MillClay, Limestone, GeneralProducer
El Paso Quarry & PlantSilicaProducer
El Paso Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
International Hortense Mill MineClayProducerSedimentary
Edgar Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Vowell Construction Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Courchesne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
McKelligon Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
La Guna0.6 miles18
Smeltertown0.8 miles18
Buena Vista1.1 miles18
Mission Hills1.9 miles21
Coronado Hills2.4 miles18
El Paso3.4 miles21
Montoya4.7 miles18
Planeport5.6 miles21

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 Q122547748The 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 1379603. 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.