Porvenir, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marfa census division. The Survey maps it on the Quinn Creek quadrangle.

Porvenir within Presidio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1896 USGS San Carlos quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Quinn Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Porvenir: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mammoth Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence	Carnotite
Mcspadden Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Candelaria	21.1 miles	11
Pueblo Nuevo	22.7 miles	12
Quebec	24.4 miles	15
Las Lulas	28.2 miles	12
Ryan	28.9 miles	11
Ruidosa	31.3 miles	11
Chaffin Place	36.5 miles	12
Chinati	42.9 miles	11

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 Porvenir	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85794104	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 2033953. 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.

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.