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Hobson, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Falls City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78117. The Survey maps it on the Karnes City quadrangle. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Hobson within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

62 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Hobson between 2005 and 2020, burning about 247 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
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT US181/CR219
22 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2019Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIO GRANDE RESOURCES
30 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePLAINS EXPLORATION - CR219
27 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUDY MANKA
26 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKEVIN & LISA LABUS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Hobson: 10 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium. 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
Panna Maria East MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Panna Maria West MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Brysch PitUraniumProducer
Brysch ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
E. Labus MineUraniumProducer
Fort Worth National MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Franklin PitUraniumProducer
Ft Worth Natl PitUraniumProducer
Hobson In Situ Uranium ProjUraniumProducer
Jaskinia ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound

Every working recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobson in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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 1997HailHobson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Karnes 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
Falls City2.4 miles12
Conquista Crossing3.9 miles12
Mays Crossing4.2 miles12
Cestohowa4.5 miles10
Panna Maria4.7 miles9
Mayo4.9 miles9
Karnes City6.7 miles9
Pawelekville7.1 miles10

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 HobsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710499The 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 1359323. 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.