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Mission Hills, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the El Paso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79902. It lies near Crazycat Mountain. The Survey maps it on the El Paso quadrangle.

Mission Hills within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mission Hills in 2000, burning under an 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
Smoking1

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
13 January 2000Smokingunder an acreChamizal National MonumentBERMUDA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mission Hills: 10 producers, 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) El Paso Copper SmelterCopper, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
(Facility) El Paso Lead SmelterLead, Smelter, Cadmium, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid, ZincPlant
Eagle Mine and MillClay, Limestone, GeneralProducer
El Paso Quarry & PlantSilicaProducer
El Paso Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
International Hortense Mill MineClayProducerSedimentary
Edgar Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Vowell Construction Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Courchesne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
McKelligon Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
La Guna1.4 miles18
Smeltertown1.7 miles18
Courchesne1.9 miles18
El Paso2.1 miles21
Buena Vista2.7 miles18
Coronado Hills3.2 miles18
Planeport4.1 miles21
Sunrise Acres5.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362970. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.