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Thelma, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the San Antonio South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78264. The Survey maps it on the Thelma quadrangle.

Thelma within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

152 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Thelma between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,249 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG OAK FIRE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2011Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSILVER MOUNTAIN
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAPPLE WHITE RD
20 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
14 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Thelma: 8 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Harris Sand PitSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Osburn Pit & PlantSilicaProducer
Harris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Kite PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Kite PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lehr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Brotze PitClayPast ProducerClay
Stone PitClayProducerSedimentary
Stone PitClayUnknown
Wright PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thelma in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindThelma$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that blew two foot diameter trees over onto roads near Sandy Oaks.
March 2022HailThelma-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Thelma.
May 2020HailThelma-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail near Sandy Oaks.
March 2014HailThelma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bexar 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
Losoya2.7 miles10
Cassin3.1 miles12
Oak Island3.2 miles9
Earle3.4 miles12
Buena Vista4.5 miles12
Sandy Oaks5.5 miles10
Southton7.2 miles12
Garza Crossing7.6 miles13

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 ThelmaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113634989The 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 1380654. 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.