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Miguel, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Moore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78005. The Survey maps it on the Schattel quadrangle.

Miguel within Frio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

84 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Miguel between 2005 and 2019, burning about 2,452 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE MUTUAL AID FRIO COUNTY
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 472 @ CR 1549
12 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service385 CR 318
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 472 & CR 2605
5 August 2008Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Frio County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miguel in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash flood. 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
June 2016Flash FloodMiguel-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing CR 140E at Hwy 85 west of Charlotte.

Every storm 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
Schattel2.9 miles9
Goldfinch5.3 miles10
Bigfoot8.9 miles9
Big Foot Colonia9.3 miles9
Pearsall East Colonia13.4 miles10
Moore13.6 miles8
North Pearsall14.6 miles10
Pearsall14.7 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122571509The 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 1380196. 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.