Nueces, Texas

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.

• 1925 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Nueces between 2008 and 2017, burning about 278 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Flour Bluff Junction
• Clarkwood
• McNorton
• Viola
• Arlington Heights
• Corpus Christi

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Nueces: 8 producers, 4 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Nueces County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378770. 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.