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Quihi, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78861. It stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quihi quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Quihi within Medina County

On record in Quihi

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Quihi between 2006 and 2019, burning about 816 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
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
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 90 E HONDO
7 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4617
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
19 August 2011Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 467
23 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 654
17 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 366
7 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quihi in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Flash FloodQuihi$50,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flooding which damaged several homes.
May 2016HailQuihi-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Quihi.
May 2010Flash FloodQuihi-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which flooded and closed SH 173 due to high water near Verde Creek.
October 2009Flash FloodQuihi-Heavy rain caused flooding which closed FM 2676 along with numerous low water crossings along State Highway 173 and County Road 462.

Every storm recorded in Medina 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
New Fountain1.6 miles9
Dunlay3.6 miles9
Bader4.2 miles9
Hondo6.6 miles9
Castroville8.4 miles9
Riomedina8.4 miles9
Noonan10.8 miles9
Biry11.8 miles7

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 QuihiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7271942The 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 1380905. 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.