Fort McIntosh, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78040. It stands on Zacata Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laredo West quadrangle.

Fort McIntosh within Webb County

On record in Fort McIntosh

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Fort McIntoshlisted 1975 · 0.1 miles away
Hamilton Hotellisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
Laredo US Post Office, Court House and Custom Houselisted 2001 · 0.9 miles away
Webb County Courthouselisted 1981 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1956 USGS Islitas quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Laredo West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fort McIntosh in 2017, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
4 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOS BOTINES
19 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MANGANA HEIN
30 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 35
31 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAS LOMAS
14 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1706065-GRASS & WOODS
31 January 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 35 25
28 January 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILO RANCH
26 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CLOSNER RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fort McIntosh: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Antimony, Clay. 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
Laredo Brick Plant	Clay	Producer
Nl Industries Inc	Antimony	Producer
Garcia Sand and Gravel Patino Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Laredo Ready Mix Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
No. 1 Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Webb 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
Laredo	0.8 miles	10
Nye	3.7 miles	10
Del Mar	4.7 miles	9
Larga Vista	4.9 miles	9
Larga Vista Colonia	4.9 miles	9
Old Milwaukee West Colonia	5.3 miles	9
Old Milwaukee East Colonia	5.4 miles	9
Los Altos Colonia	7.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378313. 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.