BlockRio Frio, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Camp Wood-Leakey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78879. It lies near Pole Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Rio Frio quadrangle. It stands 1,483 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Utopia quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Rio Frio quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Bandera quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Rio Frio between 2006 and 2020, burning about 103 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20200929 |
| 30 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRIO CABINS |
| 28 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rio Frio in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rio Frio | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew the metal roof off of a cabin and knocked down some large tree limbs west of Rio Frio. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rio Frio | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. No damage was reported. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Rio Frio | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding with over a foot of water covering the road at Second Crossing on FM 1120. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Rio Frio | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding with over a foot of water covering the road at Second Crossing on FM 1120. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Rio Frio | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded low water crossings closing FM 1120 from Rio Frio to Leakey. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Rio Frio | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Rio Frio | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Rio Frio | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7335198 | 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 1345243. 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.