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Beach, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77301. The Survey maps it on the Conroe quadrangle.

Beach within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Beach between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,817 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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 burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8073
7 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 196
6 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service190052582
30 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beach in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 deaths and 7 injuries. 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
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBeach2 killed, 7 hurtStrong thunderstorm wind gusts blew down the frame of a house under construction in Conroe, resulting in the death of two workers and seven injuries.
August 2009HailBeach$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced golfball size hail near the intersection of Creighton Road and FM 1314.
March 2009HailBeach$1,000Quarter-sized hail was observed at the intersection of South Loop 336 and FM 3083.
August 2009Funnel CloudBeach-A funnel cloud was sighted near the intersection of Creighton Road and FM 1314.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Conroe1.9 miles14
Youens2.5 miles13
Four Corners2.7 miles14
Cut and Shoot3.5 miles13
Waukegan4.4 miles13
Groceville4.8 miles13
Panorama Village5.7 miles13
Leonidas6.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1330181. 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.