Ella, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alice census division. It stands on Ella Pasture. The Survey maps it on the Ella quadrangle.

Ella within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1921 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Ella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Ella between 2008 and 2011, burning about 717 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4973 N.HWY. 281 FIRE.
16 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KING RANCH FIRE
10 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	260 C.R. 211-1 FIRE.
6 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N.HWY.281 & N.BUS. 281
5 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MR OZUNA'S RANCH
12 May 2011	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRIAD ENERGY CO
16 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAGUNA FIRE
12 February 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 432 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ella in 2 storm reports in 2008: 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Ella	-	Between 3 and 7 inches of rain fell across the southern Coastal Bend of South Texas over a two period. This rainfall was associated with rain bands from Hurricane Dolly. Unfortunately, the primary impact from the rainfall was to cotton and sorghum crops across the region. Much of the cotton crop was waiting to be harvested, and the rainfall either severaly damaged or destoyed it. At the time of this writing, estimates on agriculture losses were very rough and final figures were still pending.
July 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Ella	-	This tornado occurred just north of the intersection of U.S. 281 and C.R. 433, in the outer rainbands of Hurricane Dolly. The tornado moved northeast to southwest, crossing U.S. 281. Several trees were observed damaged along the path.

Every storm recorded in Jim Wells 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
Seeligson	4.5 miles	8
Premont	7.9 miles	8
Palito Blanco	9.3 miles	7
Ben Bolt	12.1 miles	7
La Gloria	13.3 miles	7
English Acres Colonia	16.4 miles	7
Coyote Acres	16.6 miles	7
Torian	16.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380846. 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.

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.