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San Pedro, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Robstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78380. The Survey maps it on the Robstown quadrangle.

San Pedro 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of San Pedro between 2006 and 2013, burning about 201 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 August 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3950 CO RD 44
17 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77 CO RD 36
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO RD 44 & 1694
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE HWY 44 & CO RD 67
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIOLET FIRE
16 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTERN & WEST AVE D

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Pedro in 1 storm report in 2004: 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
February 2004Thunderstorm WindSan Pedro$100,000Winds blew off roof of one wing of the San Pedro Elementary School.

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
Robstown0.5 miles13
North San Pedro1.0 miles13
Spring Gardens3.8 miles13
Rabb3.9 miles8
Violet4.4 miles13
Five Points5.3 miles13
Annaville6.1 miles13
Calallen6.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1346438. 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.