Lull, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Del Rio Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78837. The Survey maps it on the Pecos High Bridge quadrangle.

Lull 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 Shumla quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Pecos High Bridge quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Comstock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lull between 1993 and 2011, burning about 102 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
17 June 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RXR #1
7 February 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	HIGHBRIDGE
25 February 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7 MILE RANCH FIRE #51

Every fire 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
Shumla	5.9 miles	7
Comstock	7.9 miles	7
Langtry	14.6 miles	8
Bakers Crossing	16.4 miles	7
Box Canyon Estates	16.8 miles	7
Amistad Acres	17.7 miles	7
Rough Canyon Colonia	20.8 miles	8
Devils Shores	21.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380117. 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.