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Ryan, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marfa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79843. It lies near Owls Nest Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ryan quadrangle. It stands 4,751 feet above sea level.

Ryan within Presidio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ryan between 2007 and 2019, burning about 44,516 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
4 August 2015Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIEJA PASS FIRE
6 June 2010Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAEROSTAT NORTH
4 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use43,241 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUGHES RANCH
29 June 2010Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUGHES/SASSER RANCH
17 June 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARREL SPRINGS RANCH
16 June 2014Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRYAN RANCH
7 May 2012Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEVANS RANCH WEST MARFA
7 May 2012Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARREL SPRINGS RANCH

Every fire recorded in Presidio County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryan in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 5 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
March 2019HailRyan-A thunderstorm moved across Presidio County and produced one inch hail near Ryan at the Aerostat site northwest of Marfa.
May 2007HailRyan-Nickel sized hail and a wind gust of 51 mph were reported at the Marfa Aerostat.
October 2004HailRyan-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported west of Ryan.
May 2020HailRyan-no account filed
May 2011HailRyan-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
Quebec7.7 miles15
Marfa17.1 miles11
Nopal22.0 miles14
Tinaja23.8 miles14
Pueblo Nuevo28.6 miles12
Candelaria28.7 miles11
Porvenir28.9 miles12
Chaffin Place32.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q7383808The 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 1377089. 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.