La Fruta, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mathis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78368. The Survey maps it on the Mathis quadrangle.

La Fruta within San Patricio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1927 USGS Mathis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Mathis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Mathis quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

116 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of La Fruta between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,610 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM JEFF MYERS
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1100 FM 1540
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 359 AND 227
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 70
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENRY BARAJAS
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENRY BARAJAS
13 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	F.M. 1540
11 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	110 STARCKE ST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Patricio 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
Lake City	3.0 miles	12
Clearwater Cove	3.4 miles	11
Paisano Park Colonia	3.8 miles	11
Edgewater Estates Number 3 Colonia	3.9 miles	11
Edgewater Estates	3.9 miles	11
Edgewater Estates Number 1 Colonia	3.9 miles	11
Mathis	4.1 miles	11
Lakewood Heights	4.3 miles	11

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 Q122598360

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 1378539. 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.