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Bendetsen, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77327. It stands on Whisky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle.

Bendetsen within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Bendetsen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,756 acres in total. 3 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 burning119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNA
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 392
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
22 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS & WOODS
20 September 2005Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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 Bendetsen: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cleveland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Liberty 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
Nimrod0.7 miles12
Grady1.2 miles12
Cleveland1.4 miles12
Grace2.0 miles12
Snuff Ridge2.1 miles12
North Cleveland2.6 miles13
Williams2.6 miles12
Gladstell2.8 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 Q122567125The 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 1381187. 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.