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Guadalupe, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. The Survey maps it on the Victoria East quadrangle.

Guadalupe within Victoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

186 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Guadalupe between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,346 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/undetermined89
Debris and open burning55
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUAN LINN 2
4 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution130 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWICK PROPERTY
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUADALUPE ROAD
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIRDY
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2014Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Guadalupe: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Briggs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Fordyce Co Briggs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parker Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Victoria Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guadalupe in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 2 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
May 2021Flash FloodGuadalupe-Flood waters blocked off Highway 59 near Victoria at Highway 185 to near Telferner.
May 2013Flash FloodGuadalupe-Roads were closed due to high water near the intersection of Guadalupe Road and York Road in southern Victoria County.

Every storm recorded in Victoria 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
Hughes2.6 miles8
Dacosta3.4 miles8
Dernal4.1 miles8
Wood Hi5.2 miles8
Victoria5.6 miles9
Chipley6.5 miles9
Placedo6.5 miles8
Telferner6.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1358480. 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.