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San Juan, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78406. The Survey maps it on the Annaville quadrangle.

San Juan within Nueces County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of San Juan between 2006 and 2017, burning about 80 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGLOIN FIRE
20 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 26 AND 49A
11 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 763 AT COUNTY RD 26
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13724 FM 665
28 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of San Juan: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Koch Corpus Christi RefinerySulfurPlant

Every working recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Juan in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2021FloodSan Juan-Oso Creek went above major flood stage early on the morning of the 8th and crested near 27.5 feet during the evening of the 8th. One lane of Weber Road was closed due to being under water.
September 2018FloodSan Juan-Nueces County Road 28 bridge was closed between County Roads 57 and 61 due to water over the road and bridge.
June 2013Tornado (EF0)San Juan-Public shared a photo of a landspout tornado about 5 miles south of the Corpus Christi International Airport near Farm to Market Road 43 and County Road 53. There was no damage as the tornado remained over farm land.

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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
Clarkwood1.2 miles13
Flour Bluff Junction2.7 miles12
McNorton3.1 miles13
Violet3.2 miles13
Arlington Heights4.9 miles13
Nueces5.2 miles12
Viola5.2 miles13
Annaville5.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1346394. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.