Ridout, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Poth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78114. It stands on Picosa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dewees quadrangle.

Ridout within Wilson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1936 USGS Floresville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dewees quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Ridout between 2006 and 2017, burning about 180 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
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
2 August 2013	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEER RUN
11 June 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JOHNS
8 May 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GEORGE HONS 1164 CR 405
30 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 March 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 March 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Poth	3.3 miles	10
Floresville	3.6 miles	10
Dewees	4.6 miles	10
Darilek	5.2 miles	10
Sunnyside	6.2 miles	9
Loma Vista	7.0 miles	10
Three Oaks	7.4 miles	12
Unity	9.2 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q122594514

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 1380439. 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.