Fort Quitman, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Hancock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79839. The Survey maps it on the Neely Arroyo quadrangle.

Fort Quitman within Hudspeth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1894 USGS Fort Hancock quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1943 USGS Fort Quitman quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Sierra Blanca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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
Esperanza	9.5 miles	11
Etholen	12.3 miles	13
Old Patterson Place	12.9 miles	11
Finlay	13.8 miles	11
Sierra Blanca	14.3 miles	13
Mile High	17.0 miles	12
McNary	17.1 miles	11
Arispe	17.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379791. 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.