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Seco Mines, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Eagle Pass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78852. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Pass East quadrangle. 572 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Seco Mines within Maverick County

Population over time

2 figures

Seco Mines grew from 560 to 572 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010560
2020572+12 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

30 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Seco Mines between 2008 and 2011, burning about 574 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/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 May 2011Arson/incendiarism500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMMANCHE RANCH
9 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maverick County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Seco Mines: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Hopedale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Piedras Negras OperationsFluorine-FluoriteProducer

Every working recorded in Maverick 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.

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 Seco MinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6123111The 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 1384235. 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.