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Papalote, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Skidmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78387. It stands on Ratta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Papalote quadrangle.

Papalote within Bee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

77 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Papalote between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,113 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePAPALOTE BRIDGE
16 September 2017Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 626
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-NOV
1 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAPALOTE
1 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR632
30 August 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 620
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSKIDMORE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Papalote in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2017HailPapalote-Ham radio operator reported golf ball sized hail near Papalote.
April 2015HailPapalote-Spotter reported quarter sized hail 5 miles east of Tynan.
October 2013Funnel CloudPapalote-Spotter reported a funnel cloud near Papalote.
April 2010Flash FloodPapalote-Between 4 and 7 inches of rain fell producing widespread flash flooding in the Skidmore and Tynan areas. Flowing water was over the road at the intersection of Hwy 181 and Hwy 359 in Skidmore. Water was also over the road at Hwy 359, between Skidmore and Tynan. Water was flowing over Hwy 181, between Skidmore and Papalote, where some motorists were stranded with water up to the doors on vehicles. FM 796 was closed from FM 359 in Tynan to US 59 due to high water. One high water rescue was performed on FM 796. Water was also reported flowing over the road on Hudson Marshall Rd., 2 miles north of Skidmore.
December 2002HailPapalote-no account filed
June 1996HailPapalote-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
Skidmore7.2 miles9
Tynan8.2 miles11
Yougeen11.8 miles9
Olmos12.4 miles11
River Oaks Number 2 Colonia12.8 miles9
Beeville17.6 miles9
Clareville17.6 miles9
Blue Berry Hill Colonia17.6 miles9

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 PapaloteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113070978The 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 1378831. 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.