BlockBastrop Beach, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brazosport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77515. The Survey maps it on the Oyster Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Oyster Creek quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Oyster Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Oyster Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
35 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Bastrop Beach between 2000 and 2019, burning about 2,240 acres in total. 5 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-000334 |
| 23 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-000330 |
| 18 August 2012 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-000274 |
| 12 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-000259 |
| 9 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 168 acres | Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge | TX-TMR-FY19-WF-FIREHALL |
| 6 July 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge | DEMI JOHN |
| 4 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 450 acres | Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge | DJFIREWORK |
| 25 July 2011 | Natural | 337 acres | Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge | CR 595 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bastrop Beach: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratton Ridge | Salt | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bastrop Beach in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Bastrop Beach | - | A funnel cloud was sighted at the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge near the intersection of FM 2004 and FM 523. |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122552263 | 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 1351583. 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.