Oilton, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78371. The Survey maps it on the Oilton quadrangle. 270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Oilton within Webb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1939 USGS Bruni quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Oilton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oilton in 2017, burning about 5 acres 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 August 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JC PEREZ
8 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOLINA
15 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
3 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHINO'S
10 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	500 MAIN
27 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
1 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oilton in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2007	Hail	Oilton	$25,000	Mostly golfball size hail was observed, but a few hailstones just under the size of grapefruits were observed and shown to the NWS storm survey team the following day. Windows were broken out of a few homes by the hail. There was also damage to some vehicles. The NWS survey team also found damage to small vegetation caused from the hail.\|
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Oilton	$10,000	Light pole was blown down on Highway 359 in Oilton.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Oilton	-	Tornado touched down over open country southwest of Freer.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Oilton	-	Spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
April 1997	Hail	Oilton	-	Dime sized hail reported by Border Patrol.
May 1997	Hail	Oilton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webb 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rodriguez Addition Colonia	0.2 miles	8
Mirando City	2.3 miles	8
Mirando City Addition Colonia	2.4 miles	8
Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia	2.7 miles	8
Los Ojuelos	4.5 miles	8
Aguilares	6.1 miles	8
Aguilares Acres Colonia	6.3 miles	8
Bruni	7.6 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Oilton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970122	The 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 1343096. 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.