Etholen, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sierra Blanca census division. The Survey maps it on the Lasca quadrangle.

Etholen within Hudspeth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1895 USGS Sierra Blanca quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Lasca quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Sierra Blanca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Etholen in 2011, burning about 2 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	1

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
16 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	106 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Sierra Blanca

Every fire recorded in Hudspeth 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 Etholen: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Uranium, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bona Mine	Silver, Lead, Iron, Nickel	Past Producer	Replacement
Bonanza Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Producer
Hunter Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Uranium, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Love Pasture Prospects	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Milby Peak Prospect	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Milby Peak Prospect	Lead, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
North Sierra Blanca Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium	Prospect	1969
South Sierra Blanca Prospect	Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect	1969
Stokes Mine	Lead, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer
Tremble Hill Prospect	Copper, Iron, Tin, Beryllium	Occurrence	Magnetite

Every working recorded in Hudspeth 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
Sierra Blanca	3.8 miles	13
Mile High	5.5 miles	12
Arispe	8.4 miles	13
Old Patterson Place	11.5 miles	11
Finlay	11.8 miles	11
Fort Quitman	12.3 miles	10
Esperanza	15.3 miles	11
Eagle Flat	16.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379738. 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.