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Nopal, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marfa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79843. It lies near Short Draw. The Survey maps it on the Nopal quadrangle.

Nopal within Presidio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

30 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Nopal between 2008 and 2020, burning about 531 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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 2015Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENLEE RANCH FIRE
4 August 2009Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATTO GAGE RANCH
16 August 2014Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAISANO CATTLE CO.
31 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3.5 MILES E. HWY 90
29 July 2015Natural124 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENLEE RANCH FIRE
25 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCULBERSON RESIDENCE
21 July 2009Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANTELOPE HILLS RD.
20 July 2020Natural6.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANTELOPE HILLS ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Presidio 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
Marfa5.1 miles11
Tinaja7.4 miles14
Ryan22.0 miles11
Plata28.8 miles12
Quebec29.4 miles15
Chaffin Place35.2 miles12
Shafter38.0 miles12
Casa Piedra38.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378762. 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.