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El Oso, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Karnes City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78119. The Survey maps it on the Pawnee quadrangle.

El Oso within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

40 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of El Oso between 2006 and 2019, burning about 572 acres in total. 1 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 use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Natural1

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
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJERRY ZINSITZ
9 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJIMMY VILLARREAL
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePUMPCO
4 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBALES ON FIRE
31 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON SIDE OF ROAD
30 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT - TX72 AT CR182
29 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROBERT HORNEE
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

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
Zunkerville1.9 miles10
Bainville3.8 miles10
Lenz4.1 miles8
Coy City6.5 miles11
Green6.9 miles9
Burnell9.7 miles9
Kenedy10.0 miles9
Karnes City11.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379707. 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.