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Las Flores, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pearsall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78017. The Survey maps it on the Las Flores quadrangle.

Las Flores within Frio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Las Flores between 2005 and 2018, burning about 347 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1582 @ CR 3728
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service13710 FM 1582
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14233 FM 1582
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13605 FM 1582
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service13754 FM 1582
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1582 3 MILES SOUTH OF HWY 85
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1582 @ COUNTY LINE
3 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1582 552 MILE MARKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Frio 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
Orelia5.0 miles8
Derby11.2 miles11
Derby Colonia11.4 miles11
Goldfinch11.7 miles10
Dilley12.3 miles9
Hilltop Colonia12.4 miles9
Hilltop12.4 miles9
Melon13.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380060. 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.