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Mendoza, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78644. The Survey maps it on the Creedmoor quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Mendoza within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

97 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Mendoza between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,463 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service650 CALDER RD
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 139
4 September 2014Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS US HWY 183 COMMAND
17 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD SAN ANTONIO
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 126
14 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2485 SCHUELKE RD
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROSSROADS DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendoza in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 6 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2015Flash FloodMendoza$1,000,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM 1854 at Hwy 21. There were also reports of vehicles stranded in high water at other points along Hwys 21 and 130. In total there were 130 homes affected due to flooding on the 30th in Caldwell County, 31 homes were destroyed, most were mobile homes along the San Marcos River between San Marcos and Martindale. The county totaled nearly 1 million dollars in infrastructure losses and debris cost. This total does not include insured/uninsured losses to homes.
June 2020Flash FloodMendoza-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Williamson Rd. at Old Lockhart Rd. near Mendoza. Report was from ATXFloods.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindMendoza-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that downed tree limbs near Hwy21 and US183.
May 2015Flash FloodMendoza-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing multiple roads across the county.
March 2007Flash FloodMendoza-Thunderstorms over northwestern Caldwell County produced between 2 and 3 inches of rain in the late afternoon, causing flash flooding from Mendoza to McMahan. Many rural roads were closed, including FM1322.
March 2007Flash FloodMendoza-Northeast Caldwell County received between 2 and 3 inches of rain in the late afternoon that resulted in flash flooding through the early evening. Many of the small rural roads were closed, including FM1854.
October 2006Flash FloodMendoza-The line of storms dropped between 3 and 4 inches of rain in the Mendoza area in extreme northern Caldwell County. FM1854 was closed due to high water.
April 2016HailMendoza-no account filed
April 2016HailMendoza-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Niederwald2.2 miles18
Lytton Springs3.9 miles17
Uhland6.2 miles13
Saint Johns Colony7.2 miles15
Lockhart8.3 miles15
Dale8.4 miles15
Maxwell10.3 miles13
Reedville12.1 miles13

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 MendozaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073222The 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 1378663. 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.