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Rincon, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. The Survey maps it on the Rincon quadrangle.

Rincon within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rincon between 2004 and 2011, burning about 3,756 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLAS BRISAS
1 August 2004Debris and open burning150 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex490
16 June 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexSNAKE
5 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2005Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMEDIA LUNA
16 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 October 2011Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2844 FIRE

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rincon in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2025HailRincon-A ranch owner sent a video of estimated quarter size hail.
May 2025HailRincon-There was an mPING report of golf ball size hail about 5.6 miles west-northwest of Rincon, or about 16.5 miles northeast of Rio Grande City.
April 2009HailRincon-Penny sized hail was reported near the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 755 and 490.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Rincon-The Starr County Emergency Manager reported seeing a funnel cloud touchdown briefly near the intersection of 755 and 490 just east of 755 and approximately 1/4 mile north of 490 near the city of Rincon. The Emergency Manager estimated the tornado was approximately 100 feet wide and touched down in the open on ranch land. No damages occurred during this event.
May 1997HailRincon-no account filed
September 1996HailRincon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Starr 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
Robberson9.5 miles10
La Carla Colonia9.5 miles9
Santa Catarina9.8 miles10
Sammy Martinez Colonia10.4 miles10
Santa Anna10.7 miles10
Eugenio Saenz Colonia11.0 miles11
La Lomita Colonia11.8 miles10
El Rancho Vela Colonia11.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378958. 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.