BlockAngel City, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Goliad North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77963. The Survey maps it on the Charco quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Charco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Goliad quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Angel City between 2006 and 2019, burning about 628 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-39 |
| 6 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE (LESLIE ZILLIG) |
| 2 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NEWTON POWELL |
| 13 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 031-14 |
| 21 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16-08 |
| 6 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 05062009 (239 W) |
| 14 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angel City in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Angel City | - | Damage estimates due to sorghum losses in the county were at 835 thousand dollars across the county due to heavy rainfall. A 40 percent loss occurred across the county. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Angel City | - | Golf ball sized hail occurred near Farm to Market Road 1726. |
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.
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 Angel City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21196325 | 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 1379347. 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.