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Rudolph, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sarita census division. It lies near Divisadero. The Survey maps it on the Rudolph quadrangle.

Rudolph within Kenedy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

12 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Rudolph between 2011 and 2019, burning about 8,317 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
5 August 2019Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORIAS GRASS FIRE
21 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUP FIRE
21 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEATH BRUSH FIRES
20 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUDOLPH BRUSH FIRES
25 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUDOLPH GRASS FIRE
13 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN BERTA GATE FIRE
24 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUTLER GATE FIRES
7 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUDOLPH POWER LINE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenedy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rudolph in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
February 2008HailRudolph-A trained spotter reported an isolated thunderstorm produced hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter in an area approximately 9 miles North Northeast of Raymondville.

Every storm recorded in Kenedy 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
Norias7.2 miles11
Julian12.4 miles11
Armstrong16.5 miles11
Turcotte22.2 miles8
Sarita37.0 miles8
La Parra Landing39.9 miles12
Yarborough41.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378995. 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.