Alamo Beach, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Port Lavaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77979. The Survey maps it on the Port Lavaca East quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Alamo Beach within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1952 USGS Port Lavaca East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Port Lavaca East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Alamo Beach between 2006 and 2009, burning about 1,469 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
20 July 2008	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,400 acres	Aransas National Wildlife Refuge	TATTON ASSIST 2
5 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SEADRIFT STREET
25 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RADIO TOWER
24 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MULCH 2
23 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MULCH
2 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BIG DUKES
2 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MEDIAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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
Magnolia Beach	2.7 miles	10
Port Lavaca	3.2 miles	8
Point Comfort	7.0 miles	10
Clark Station	7.0 miles	8
Indianola	7.0 miles	9
Olivia	8.0 miles	8
Sixmile	9.1 miles	9
Kamey	9.2 miles	9

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 Alamo Beach	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4705947	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 2034596. 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.