BlockLa Salle, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Vanderbilt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77969. The Survey maps it on the La Salle quadrangle. It stands 36 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1952 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of La Salle between 2009 and 2020, burning about 600 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COTTON BALER |
| 6 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DODD |
| 15 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KING ROAD FIRE |
| 12 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | EL LOBO |
| 19 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KEERAN FIRE |
| 9 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 326 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KAYLINE ESCAPE |
| 21 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 324 |
| 8 October 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 616 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Salle in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2003: 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | La Salle | $1,000 | Tornado that briefly touched down likely began as a waterspout over Lavaca Bay or Redfish Lake and rapidly dissipated after moving over land. |
| January 1998 | Tornado (F0) | La Salle | - | Union Pacific Railroad officials reported brief tornado touchdown on the railroad tracks. No damage reported. |
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.
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 La Salle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6465073 | 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 1360803. 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.