BlockPumpville, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Del Rio Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78871. The Survey maps it on the Pumpville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Langtry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Pumpville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Comstock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pumpville between 2006 and 2011, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TERRELL COUNTY MUTUAL AID |
| 18 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pumpville in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pumpville | $10,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph. The Rio Grande Electric Cooperative reported several broken power poles along Hwy 90 west of Langtry. Texas DPS also reported an 18 wheeler overturned in the same area. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Pumpville | - | A thunderstorm produced large hail. Most of the hail was quarter size with the largest being golf ball size. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Pumpville | - | Golfball-size hail piled 6 inches deep was reported on a ranch east of Pumpville. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Pumpville | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Pumpville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osman | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Langtry | 13.3 miles | 8 | |
| Pandale | 19.3 miles | 6 | |
| Hackberry Crossing | 19.5 miles | 6 | |
| Shumla | 21.2 miles | 7 | |
| Lull | 27.0 miles | 7 | |
| Bakers Crossing | 31.3 miles | 7 | |
| Comstock | 34.8 miles | 7 |
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 Pumpville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q103342900 | 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 1378917. 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.