Sierra Chino, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alpine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79834. It lies near Sierra de Chino. The Survey maps it on the Smoky Creek quadrangle.

Sierra Chino within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1903 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000
1905 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Smoky Creek quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sierra Chino between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,063 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 June 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	BUENOSAIRE
19 June 1996	Natural	19 acres	Big Bend National Park	SMOKEY
3 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	562 acres	Big Bend National Park	JOHNSON RANCH
23 March 1998	Debris and open burning	268 acres	Big Bend National Park	S. CHINO
2 February 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	BULBOUS
13 February 2019	Arson/incendiarism	88 acres	Big Bend National Park	BUENOS AIRES
1 February 2019	Recreation and ceremony	84 acres	Big Bend National Park	REED CAMP
16 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37 acres	Big Bend National Park	LOOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Buenos Aires	4.3 miles	11
Woodsons	6.7 miles	11
Pettits	7.5 miles	0
Santa Elena Crossing	8.1 miles	13
Castolon	8.3 miles	15
Pantera	11.7 miles	0
Talley	12.8 miles	0
Lunas	13.7 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q122590743

The 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 1380538. 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.