Tesnus, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marathon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79842. It lies near Fin Del Mundo Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tesnus quadrangle. It stands 3,720 feet above sea level.

Tesnus within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1920 USGS Longfellow quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Tesnus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Sanderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tesnus between 2001 and 2011, burning about 25,037 acres in total. 2 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 September 2011	Natural	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOUSETOP 2 FIRE
15 August 2011	Natural	33 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MARIPOSA FIRE
28 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST BRANCH - 1

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tesnus: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
	Stephenson Prospect	Manganese	Unknown

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
Haymond	6.7 miles	11
Rosenfeld	7.8 miles	10
McFarland Place	8.8 miles	11
Old Corbett Place	10.1 miles	12
Old Edith Lochausen Place	10.1 miles	12
Matthews Place	10.4 miles	11
Bennett Place (historical)	11.7 miles	11
Kriebaum Place	11.8 miles	11

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 Tesnus	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073239	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 1379153. 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.