Palo Alto, 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.

• 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kingsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Driscoll West quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Palo Alto between 2006 and 2020, burning about 47 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:

• Driscoll
• Bishop
• Lost Creek

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palo Alto in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 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.

Every storm 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378826. 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.