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Saltillo, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pickton-Pine Forest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75478. The Survey maps it on the Saltillo quadrangle. It stands 453 feet above sea level.

Saltillo within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Saltillo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 362 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning5

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6234
23 September 2005Debris and open burning190 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 391
4 August 2011Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 363
13 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6157
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saltillo in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2008: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSaltillo$5,000Numerous trees were blown down in the eastern part of the county.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindSaltillo$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSaltillo-Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 2000HailSaltillo-no account filed
June 1997HailSaltillo-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSaltillo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Weaver4.5 miles9
Greenwood5.7 miles9
Pine Forest5.8 miles8
White Oak Junction7.4 miles9
Flora7.4 miles8
East Caney7.8 miles9
Winterfield7.9 miles9
Bethel8.5 miles8

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 SaltilloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7406126The 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 1346255. 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.