Abshier Settlement, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77538. The Survey maps it on the Whites Bayou quadrangle.

Abshier Settlement within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1943 USGS Whites Bayou quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Whites Bayou quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Whites Bayou quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Abshier Settlement between 1996 and 2012, burning about 425 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 August 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 346
19 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 41
4 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 600
14 June 1996	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 May 2011	Debris and open burning	63 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 360
2 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 66
2 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 61
2 March 2009	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 64

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Shiloh

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Abshier Settlement: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hankamer Salt Dome	Halite	Occurrence	1928
Moss Bluff Mine	Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure	Past Producer	1944, 1948, 1982
Baytown 146 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand

Every working recorded in Liberty 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
Shiloh	5.1 miles	10
Cottonwood	5.7 miles	10
Cow Island	6.9 miles	13
Moss Bluff	7.5 miles	11
Devers	7.9 miles	13
Tivett	8.0 miles	10
Moore Settlement	9.0 miles	13
Raywood	9.1 miles	13

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 Q122551386

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 1377122. 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.