Los Ojuelos, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. The Survey maps it on the Oilton quadrangle.

Los Ojuelos within Webb County

On record in Los Ojuelos

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Los Ojueloslisted 1976 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1939 USGS Bruni quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Oilton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Los Ojuelos in 2017, burning about 1 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOLINA
15 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
3 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHINO'S
10 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	500 MAIN
27 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
22 January 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MIRANDO
1 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb 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
Mirando City Addition Colonia	2.4 miles	8
Mirando City	2.5 miles	8
Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia	3.1 miles	8
Oilton	4.5 miles	8
Rodriguez Addition Colonia	4.5 miles	8
Aguilares	5.7 miles	8
Aguilares Acres Colonia	6.1 miles	8
Bruni	8.4 miles	8

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 Los Ojuelos	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6683022	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 1378611. 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.