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Tascosa, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Vega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79010. It stands on Parker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boys Ranch West quadrangle.

Tascosa within Oldham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Tascosa between 2006 and 2020, burning about 27,718 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLS RANCH
12 July 2011Natural250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIT RANCH
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceASSIST BOYS RANCH WITH SMITH FIRE
16 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use214 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIT
12 June 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOYS RANCH (180612085)
4 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLS RANCH
25 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service80 MM FIRE
19 March 2018Smoking100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLS RANCH FIRE MARCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Tascosa: 4 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Judd Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Hwy Pit No. 57-145-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 57-22-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 57-23-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 59-103-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Tascosa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oldham County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tascosa in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 hail. 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
June 2007HailTascosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oldham 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
Old Tascosa (historical)1.4 miles6
Boys Ranch1.4 miles6
Hollicott Crossing7.0 miles6
Murdo8.6 miles6
Old Farm Crossing18.5 miles6
Everett20.1 miles6
Vega20.8 miles6
Wildorado21.0 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380642. 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.