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Mission Valley, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Victoria West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. The Survey maps it on the Mission Valley quadrangle.

Mission Valley within Victoria 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.

Fires near this place

154 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Mission Valley between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,031 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 236 MOODY
27 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceORT ROAD FIRE
21 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service601 ARNOLD ROAD
11 September 2014Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service032-14
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMISSION VALLEY ACRES
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-11
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service616

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission Valley in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 3 hail. 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
April 1994HailMission Valley$50,000At 2005 CST the public reported golf ball-sized hail around Mission Valley. This report was later confirmed by Civil Air Patrol personnel at 2010 CST as well.
April 1994HailMission Valley$50,000At 2005 CST the public reported golf ball-sized hail around Mission Valley. This report was later confirmed by Civil Air Patrol personnel at 2010 CST as well.
April 1993HailMission Valley-Nickel-size hail was reported in Mission Valley. Several trees 3 to 4 inches in diameter were snapped in two near Aloe Field.

Every storm recorded in Victoria 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
Nursery5.3 miles8
Moursund7.3 miles8
Coletoville10.0 miles8
Quail Creek10.3 miles9
Dupre10.4 miles9
Aloe11.1 miles9
Chipley11.4 miles9
Raisin11.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362977. 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.