Apolonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77830. The Survey maps it on the Anderson quadrangle.

Apolonia within Grimes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Anderson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Apolonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Smoking	3

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 September 2010	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 313
30 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 215
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JOHNSON
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2004	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 31
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	THOMAS 6498
16 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR217 BRUSH FIRE
13 September 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM2819 BRUSH/GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes 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
Anderson	4.1 miles	11
Richards	4.8 miles	11
Roans Prairie	6.5 miles	10
Blackberry	7.2 miles	11
Erwin	8.0 miles	10
Shiro	8.4 miles	10
Piedmont	10.0 miles	10
Stoneham	10.4 miles	10

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 Apolonia	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196327	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 1379355. 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.