BlockLunas, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alpine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79834. It lies near Peña Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Castolon quadrangle.
On record in Lunas
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.
Luna Jacallisted 1974 · 0.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1903 USGS Terlingua quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Terlingua quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Castolon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lunas between 2000 and 2017, burning about 154 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Big Bend National Park | COTTONWOOD |
| 4 July 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Big Bend National Park | TERLINGULA ABAJO |
| 8 June 2008 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Big Bend National Park | BEE MOUNTAIN |
| 21 May 2010 | Natural | 122 acres | Big Bend National Park | SUBLETT |
| 25 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 acres | Big Bend National Park | ALAMO |
| 31 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Big Bend National Park | OCOTILLO GROVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terlingua Abaja | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Castolon | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Santa Elena Crossing | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Study Butte | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Terlingua | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Buenos Aires | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lajitas | 13.2 miles | 17 | |
| Sierra Chino | 13.7 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380118. 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.