Homestead Meadows, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the El Paso East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79938. The Survey maps it on the Nations South Well quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1908 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Nations South Well quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Nations South Well quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Homestead Meadows between 1999 and 2014, burning under an acre 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14678 MONTANA |
| 2 October 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Guadalupe Mountains National Park | FALS ALRM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Homestead Meadows: 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Platinum, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hueco Pit | Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Maria Luz Puentes | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Paisano Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Platinum, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Montana Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Paisano Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| R.O.H.K. Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | Carnotite | |
| Unnamed Prospects | Uranium | Occurrence | Carnotite |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCracken Estates Colonia | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| East Wind Estates Colonia | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Fern Village Number 1 Colonia | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Montana Land Estates Colonia | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Homestead Meadows South Number 3 Colonia | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Homestead Meadows South Number 4 Colonia | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Homestead Meadows South Number 6 Colonia | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Las Casitas Number 2 Colonia | 1.9 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122546293 | The 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 1867550. 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.











