Terlingua Abaja, Texas

15 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 79852. The Survey maps it on the Castolon quadrangle.

Terlingua Abaja within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Terlingua quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Terlingua quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Castolon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Terlingua Abaja between 1993 and 2017, burning about 3,665 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
26 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	COTTONWOOD
4 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	TERLINGULA ABAJO
31 May 1993	Natural	3,495 acres	Big Bend National Park	MAYDAY
21 May 2010	Natural	122 acres	Big Bend National Park	SUBLETT
25 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29 acres	Big Bend National Park	ALAMO
31 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	OCOTILLO GROVE
15 March 2016	Natural	19 acres	Big Bend National Park	ARCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster 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 Terlingua Abaja: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Silver, Magnesite, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Las Marias	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Magnesite	Occurrence
	Las Marias	Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence

Every working 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
Lunas	4.1 miles	15
Castolon	6.5 miles	15
Santa Elena Crossing	6.6 miles	13
Terlingua	8.8 miles	16
Study Butte	9.5 miles	16
Lajitas	10.1 miles	17
Buenos Aires	10.5 miles	11
Sierra Chino	14.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380647. 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.