Johnstone, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Del Rio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. The Survey maps it on the Del Rio NE quadrangle.

Johnstone within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1943 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Del Rio NE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Johnstone between 2005 and 2009, burning about 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	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
9 March 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 March 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 October 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 January 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VISTA LOMA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Val Verde County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnstone in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstone	-	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 54 kts by the ASOS at Laughlin AFB.
April 2017	Hail	Johnstone	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at Laughlin AFB.

Every storm recorded in Val Verde 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
Val Verde Park Number 2 Colonia	3.7 miles	7
Val Verde Park	3.9 miles	7
Val Verde Park Colonia	4.3 miles	7
Del Rio	7.4 miles	7
Rio Bravo Colonia	8.9 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 2 Colonia	9.0 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 1 Colonia	9.1 miles	7
Los Campos Number 1,2 and 5 Colonia	9.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380865. 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.

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.