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.
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
- Saathoff Houselisted 1982
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Fountain quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Quihi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US 90 E HONDO |
| 7 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4617 |
| 23 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 19 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 467 |
| 23 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR 654 |
| 17 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 366 |
| 7 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Quihi | $50,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flooding which damaged several homes. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Quihi | - | A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Quihi. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Quihi | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which flooded and closed SH 173 due to high water near Verde Creek. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Quihi | - | Heavy rain caused flooding which closed FM 2676 along with numerous low water crossings along State Highway 173 and County Road 462. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Fountain | 1.6 miles | 9 | |
| Dunlay | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Bader | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hondo | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Castroville | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Riomedina | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Noonan | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Biry | 11.8 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 Quihi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7271942 | 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 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.





