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Riomedina, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Castroville-LaCoste census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78009. It stands on San Geronimo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riomedina quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Riomedina within Medina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

34 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Riomedina between 2006 and 2019, burning about 225 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 472
3 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service18330 FM 1957
26 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3821
12 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM471N
4 July 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHETA GRASS
4 July 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 375
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Riomedina: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schoenfeld QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fidel Guerra Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rosita Gravel Guerra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Medina 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
Castroville5.8 miles9
Bader6.0 miles9
Mico7.5 miles10
Quihi8.4 miles9
Dunlay8.4 miles9
La Coste9.7 miles10
New Fountain10.0 miles9
Pearson11.6 miles10

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 RiomedinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7335279The 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 1345248. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.