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Verdi, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pleasanton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78064. The Survey maps it on the Leming quadrangle.

Verdi within Atascosa 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

153 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Verdi between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,728 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use31
Smoking14
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM 108
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVERDI RD
4 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceADAMS RD 2
23 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUPE GONZALES #2
21 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANDY REED
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWITTEN RD
8 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePERSYN FARM
8 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVERDI RD/1784

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verdi in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 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
July 2008LightningVerdi$150,000Lightning struck a house on County Road 209 in the Serbin area. The house was struck around 1 pm while the residents were away. The house was destroyed.
May 2017HailVerdi-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail along I-37 near Leming.
August 2016Flash FloodVerdi-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. East of Pleasanton cars were stalled in water leading to water rescues. Hwy 97 was closed between Pleasanton and Floresville.
June 2010Flash FloodVerdi-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding and closed County Road 536 from I-37 to the Wilson County line, FM 1784 north of Verde, and several other roads in the northeast corner of the county.

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
Leming4.8 miles9
Black Hill5.5 miles8
Las Gallinas6.4 miles9
Espey6.4 miles9
Pleasanton7.1 miles9
Coughran7.3 miles9
Poteet9.0 miles9
Leal9.6 miles8

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 VerdiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110363012The 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 1380716. 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.

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.