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Quebec, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marfa census division. The Survey maps it on the Valentine East quadrangle.

Quebec within Presidio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Quebec between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,905 acres in total. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 90 @ ANTELOPE VALLEY FARMS
17 June 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARREL SPRINGS RANCH
14 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAILROAD REIGNITION
2 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenance400 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAILROAD
15 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 December 2005Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Presidio County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Quebec: 1 occurrence. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Quebec Siding ProspectUraniumOccurrenceCarnotite

Every working recorded in Presidio County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quebec in 1 storm report in 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023Thunderstorm WindQuebec-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ryan7.7 miles11
Porvenir24.4 miles12
Marfa24.5 miles11
Nopal29.4 miles14
Candelaria29.8 miles11
Pueblo Nuevo30.2 miles12
Tinaja31.5 miles14
Chaffin Place36.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380406. 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.

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.

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.