Vinegarone, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Del Rio Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. It lies near Bucktrap Draw. The Survey maps it on the Open Hollow quadrangle.

Vinegarone within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1944 USGS Dry Devil quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Open Hollow quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Camp Wood quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Vinegarone between 2017 and 2018, burning about 251 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DAVIS DRAW FIRE
14 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	250 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOMA ALTO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Loma Alta

Every fire recorded in Val Verde 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
Loma Alta	2.3 miles	7
Corner Windmill	16.8 miles	6
Bakers Crossing	20.5 miles	7
Juno	23.4 miles	6
Devils Shores	24.5 miles	8
Rough Canyon Colonia	28.0 miles	8
Comstock	28.5 miles	7
Lull	31.3 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122595656

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 1379218. 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.