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Ecleto, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gillett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78116. The Survey maps it on the Ecleto quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Ecleto within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

51 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Ecleto between 2005 and 2020, burning about 213 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
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
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
9 September 2015Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJESSE ATZGER
7 September 2018Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAREY ZIMMERMAN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR305
1 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR391 CANCELED
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEOG RESOURCES MILTON HUB #3
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEOG RESOURCES MILTON HUB #2
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEOG RESOURCES
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEXAS DEPT. OF TRANS.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ecleto: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Banduch-Cochran MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Cochran MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Cochran PitUraniumProducer
Kunschik PitUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ecleto in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 2 flash flood. 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 2023Flash FloodEcleto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. TXDoT reported water over the road on FM 627 south of Gillett.
October 2021Flash FloodEcleto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Hwy 80 was flooded between Helena and Gillett.

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
Harmony3.6 miles10
Gillett5.9 miles11
Helena7.4 miles9
Pawelekville9.7 miles10
Panna Maria9.8 miles9
Cestohowa10.0 miles10
Runge11.4 miles7
Mayo13.3 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.

Wikipedia article on EcletoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5332970The 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 1379699. 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.