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Ruidosa, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Marfa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79843. It lies near Arroyo Escondido. The Survey maps it on the Las Conchas quadrangle.

Ruidosa within Presidio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ruidosa between 2010 and 2011, burning about 300 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUIDOSA FIRE
20 February 2011Arson/incendiarism100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Presidio County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruidosa in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindRuidosa$2,000no account filed
May 1999HailRuidosa$1,000no account filed
May 2016HailRuidosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presidio 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
Las Lulas3.1 miles12
Pueblo Nuevo9.6 miles12
Candelaria10.7 miles11
Chinati11.6 miles11
Chaffin Place11.7 miles12
Adobes16.8 miles11
Borrachio18.8 miles11
Indio19.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378997. 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.