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Fashing, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Campbellton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78008. The Survey maps it on the Fashing quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Fashing within Atascosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Fashing between 2006 and 2020, burning about 627 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Natural2

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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 791 GRASS FIRE
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEWART GRASS FIRE
21 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 99 TANK FIRE
20 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARATHON EAST EXCELSION
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOE BISHOP
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARATHON OIL CR370
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFASHING GAS PLANT-1
2 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT - FM99

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Fashing: 12 producers, 12 past producers, 3 occurrences. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Sulfur, Uranium, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brayil PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Conoco Hurt PitUranium, SulfurProducer
Fashing Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Fashing Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Lone Star Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Bozo PitUraniumProducer
Butler MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Butler PitUraniumPast Producer
Carriger ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Duziuk MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound

Every working recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fashing in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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
July 2006Flash FloodFashing-Showers and thunderstorms in the Fashing area produced between 3 and 4 inches of rain in the late evening period. Flash flooding developed quickly and continued into the pre-midnight hours, closing FM791 and FM2924.

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
Peggy4.2 miles9
Campbellton9.2 miles11
McCoy12.0 miles10
Leal14.4 miles8
Black Hill17.1 miles8
Coughran17.9 miles9
Christine18.9 miles9
Pleasanton21.6 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 FashingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110363000The 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 1379755. 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.