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Saragosa, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Balmorhea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79718. The Survey maps it on the Saragosa quadrangle. It stands 3,005 feet above sea level.

Saragosa within Reeves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Saragosa between 2008 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTONWOOD
1 January 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reeves County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saragosa in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
September 2004Flash FloodSaragosa$25,000Reeves County officials reported extensive flash flooding along Interstate 10 near mile marker 214. Low spots along Texas Highway 17 were inundated by flood waters between Saragosa and the interstate. Both east and west-bound service roads also were flooded. High water threatened a Fina Gas Station near the intersection of Texas Highway 17 and Interstate 10. Up to three feet of water flowed through the business's parking lot. The Texas Department of Transportation deployed sandbags around the structure to protect it from the flood waters.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSaragosa$2,000The storms then exited the mountains, weakened but still had a downburst during its collapse that blew a satellite dish into a car's windshield. The windshield was smashed and also there was minor roof damage to a house in the area due to the wind. No rain fell during the event, but dust was raised that brought the visibility to near "zero".
July 2025Flash FloodSaragosa-County Road 310 was closed from Highway 17 to County Road 309 due to flash flooding. The total time of occurrence was estimated from radar. No damage was reported.
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Saragosa-Landspout: A photo of an apparent landspout tornado near Saragosa was shared on social media. Location and time were estimated by radar. Path length and width were estimated. There was no reported damage with this landspout.
April 2017HailSaragosa-Golf ball size hail covering I-10 at mile marker 221.
April 2017HailSaragosa-Quarter size hail was covering 25 percent of the road and melting, but passable. Hail was roughly 2 inches deep in a few locations.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSaragosa-Severe thunderstorm winds stripped large branches out of trees in Saragosa.
September 2004HailSaragosa-A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper reported penny to quarter size hail and "high" winds from the intersection of Interstate 10 and Texas Highway 17 north to Saragosa.
June 2003HailSaragosa-The public reported penny size hail falling at a gas station along Interstate 10 for fifteen minutes.
June 1999HailSaragosa-Storm formed in the Davis Mountains and moved to the east.
June 1999HailSaragosa-Storm formed in the Davis Moutains as well and moved over the same area.
April 1999HailSaragosa-Single cell storm crossed the Davis Mountains and was briefly severe near Saragosa.
May 2021HailSaragosa-no account filed
October 2018HailSaragosa-no account filed
April 2017HailSaragosa-no account filed
April 2017HailSaragosa-no account filed
May 2015HailSaragosa-no account filed
October 2006HailSaragosa-no account filed
May 1998HailSaragosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reeves 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
Balmorhea5.2 miles12
Pueblo Vitoria7.3 miles12
Verhalen7.9 miles9
Toyahvale8.7 miles12
Collier10.7 miles9
Cuatro Caminos12.1 miles12
Hoban12.6 miles9
Gozar19.3 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 SaragosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7421990The 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 1367768. 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.