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San Carlos, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. The Survey maps it on the Viboras quadrangle.

San Carlos within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

26 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of San Carlos between 2004 and 2018, burning about 4,771 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 649 RD./SANTA AURELIA RANCH RD.
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined425 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexSAN CARLOS
4 August 2004Arson/incendiarism450 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexROMAN 1
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2686 RD./FM 649 RD.
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 649 RD./FM 2687 RD.
25 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. FM 649 RD.
5 May 2005Debris and open burning2,950 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex2686
3 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined148 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLA ESTRELLITA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Carlos in 3 storm reports in 1997: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSan Carlos$2,000no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSan Carlos$1,000no account filed
May 1997HailSan Carlos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Starr 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 Escobas2.4 miles11
Viboras3.0 miles11
San Roman5.1 miles11
El Sauz7.3 miles10
Regino Ramirez Colonia13.9 miles9
Robberson14.2 miles10
Casas Colonia14.6 miles9
Santa Catarina14.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379013. 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.