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Coy City, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Karnes City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78118. The Survey maps it on the Coy City quadrangle.

Coy City within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

41 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Coy City between 2006 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT FM81
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR197
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePUMPCO
27 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARATHON OIL FM1144
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRODNEY URBANCZYK
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARATHON OIL CR370
1 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARATHON OIL COMPANY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Coy City: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Sulfur, Molybdenum, Tungsten. 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
Fashing Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Hoffman ProspectUranium, Molybdenum, TungstenOccurrenceStratabound
Butler PitUraniumPast Producer
Duziuk MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Duziuk-Lyssy MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Garcia MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Garcia-Turner PitUraniumProducer
Mccrady MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Mcgrady-Wright PitUraniumPast Producer
Rosenbrock PitUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coy City in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 5 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCoy City$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 90 mph that uprooted trees along FM 99 southwest of Karnes City.
March 2023HailCoy City-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail southwest of Coy City.
July 2007Flash FloodCoy City-Scattered thunderstorms over Bexar, Atascosa, Karnes and Frio Counties produced a general 2 to 3 inch rain, with flash flooding that closed FM99 and FM791.
July 2007Flash FloodCoy City-General 2 to 3 inch rain totals were reported over Karnes, Atascosa, Frio, and Zavala Counties. Highest amounts in Karnes County were 5 inches near Gillett. FM99, SH123, and SH119 were closed due to high water.
March 2007Flash FloodCoy City-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell across northwestern Karnes County, with as much as 4 inches in the Falls City area. SH123 and FM81 were closed due to flash flooding.
April 2007Flash FloodCoy City-Thunderstorms over Karnes County produced general 1 to 2 inch totals with amounts of up to 4 inches southwest of Coy City near the Atascosa County line. Flash flooding closed FM99 and FM791 through the early afternoon.
September 2006Flash FloodCoy City-Afternoon thunderstorms produced general 2 to 3 inch rains over Karnes and Wilson Counties, with up to 4 inches in the area from DeWees in Wilson County to Coy City and Karnes City in Karnes County. FM99 was closed due to flash flooding between Coy City and Karnes City.
April 2020HailCoy City-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
Lenz4.1 miles8
El Oso6.5 miles9
Deweesville7.0 miles12
Bainville7.9 miles10
Conquista Crossing8.2 miles12
Mayo8.4 miles9
Zunkerville8.4 miles10
Karnes City8.5 miles9

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 Q122552412The 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 1381712. 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.