Viboras, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. The Survey maps it on the Viboras quadrangle.

Viboras within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1938 USGS El Sauz quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Viboras quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Viboras between 2004 and 2018, burning about 8,365 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649 RD./SANTA AURELIA RANCH RD.
4 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	450 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ROMAN 1
4 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	750 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ROMAN 2
3 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2686 RD./FM 649 RD.
3 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649 RD./FM 2687 RD.
2 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	625 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	SAN ROMAN
18 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 May 2005	Debris and open burning	2,950 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	2686

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Viboras in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Viboras	$2,000	Power lines down, and power outages, were reported across a large part of Starr County as a developing line of severe thunderstorms moved through. One of the strongest cells likely produced some of these power outages between Viboras and La Gloria along Farm-to-Market road 2686.

Every storm recorded in Starr 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
San Roman	2.6 miles	11
San Carlos	3.0 miles	11
Las Escobas	5.1 miles	11
El Sauz	10.2 miles	10
Robberson	13.5 miles	10
Santa Catarina	13.9 miles	10
Santa Anna	14.3 miles	10
La Gloria	16.2 miles	10

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 Viboras	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122549612	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 1379212. 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.