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Viola, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78409. The Survey maps it on the Annaville quadrangle.

Viola within Nueces County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Viola between 2008 and 2019, burning about 598 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
28 August 2019Natural411 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWYATT
11 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOE FULTON CORRIDOR
28 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 January 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Viola: 5 producers, 3 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
(Facility) Corpus Christi Zinc RefineryZinc, CadmiumPlant
General Dredging Corp Shell DredgeStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
P P G Industries Inc OperationSilicaProducer
(Facility) Koch Corpus Christi RefinerySulfurPlant
(Facility) Valero Corpus Christi RefinerySulfurPlant
Haas Trucking Company OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haas Trucking Company OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Viola in 1 storm report in 2017: 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 2017Thunderstorm WindViola-TCOON site at Nueces Bay measured a gust to 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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
McNorton2.2 miles13
Arlington Heights2.3 miles13
Annaville3.2 miles13
Nueces3.8 miles12
Clarkwood4.1 miles13
Flour Bluff Junction4.3 miles12
San Juan5.2 miles13
Violet5.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379219. 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.