BlockQuintana, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Austwell-Tivoli census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78377. The Survey maps it on the Quintana quadrangle.
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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Vidaurri quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Quintana quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Quintana between 2006 and 2019, burning about 3,136 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2019 | Natural | 1,568 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRETA |
| 21 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REFUGIO HILCORP |
| 15 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TC OIL CO. |
| 29 April 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | QUINTANO RD. FIRE |
| 1 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIWAY 77N - REFUGIO COUNTY |
| 6 January 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HILCORP LAMBERT RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378923. 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.