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Atreco, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Arthur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77642. The Survey maps it on the Port Arthur North quadrangle.

Atreco within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Atreco between 2000 and 2009, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
2 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 59
17 November 2005Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 387
17 November 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 386
21 October 2000Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 752

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Atreco: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Port Arthur Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atreco in 2 storm reports in 2019: 1 flash flood, 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
August 2019Flash FloodAtreco-A report of flooding along Gulfway Drive and Stadium Road in Port Arthur.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindAtreco-Personal weather station recorded a wind gust of 60 mph in groves.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Groves2.8 miles16
Port Neches4.1 miles16
Lakeview4.6 miles16
Griffing Park4.8 miles16
Pear Ridge5.0 miles16
Nederland5.8 miles16
Port Arthur6.1 miles16
Central Gardens7.0 miles12

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 Q122554068The 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 1379372. 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.