Devils Shores, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Del Rio Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. The Survey maps it on the Rough Canyon quadrangle.

Devils Shores within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1944 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Rough Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Camp Wood quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Devils Shores between 1997 and 2008, burning about 31 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	2

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
11 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	SATAN CYN
5 August 2005	Natural	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	DEVILS3
29 June 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	DEVILS2
24 February 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	ROUGH CANYON
16 February 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	DEVILS1
31 January 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	SLAUGHTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Rough Canyon Colonia

Every fire recorded in Val Verde 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
Rough Canyon Colonia	3.5 miles	8
Lake View Addition Colonia	11.3 miles	7
Lake View	11.4 miles	7
Amistad Village	12.0 miles	9
Los Campos Number 3 and 4 Colonia	13.2 miles	7
Comstock	13.3 miles	7
Los Campos Number 1,2 and 5 Colonia	13.5 miles	7
Box Canyon Estates	13.8 miles	7

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 Q122568741

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 1334306. 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.