BlockBefore

Ramirez, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Realitos-Concepcion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78376. The Survey maps it on the Ramirez quadrangle.

Ramirez within Duval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ramirez between 2005 and 2011, burning about 7,150 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAMIREZ
14 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM3249 & 257DUVALCOUNTY
10 June 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2994 CR 266
27 April 2011Debris and open burning1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR266 FIRE
18 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAMIREZ - 105
2 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBRUSHLINE
1 November 2005Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramirez in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 1993Tornado (F1)Ramirez$500,000The sheriff's office reported eight mobile homes were damaged and at least two were completely TEXAS, Southern Cont'd destroyed in Ramirez. Scattered power outages were reported in the county.
April 2023HailRamirez-Public reported golf ball sized hail occurred near Concepcion, to the south of Benavides.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindRamirez-Trees were blown down in the community of Ramirez.
May 2015Flash FloodRamirez-Duval County Sheriff's Office reported Farm to Market Road 339 near Ramirez was closed due to flooding. County Road 250 south of Ramirez to Farm to Market Road 3249 was closed to flooding also. A portion of County Road 235 was washed out near Cibolo Creek.
February 1998Flash FloodRamirez-Sheriff report of numerous flooded roadways.

Every storm recorded in Duval 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
Sejita3.3 miles7
Concepcion4.4 miles7
Conception4.5 miles7
Cruz Calle7.9 miles7
Santa Cruz8.5 miles7
Realitos9.3 miles7
Realitos Colonia9.5 miles7
Vera Cruz10.2 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 RamirezAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7289598The 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 1344730. 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.