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Brazosport, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1974. It stands in the Brazosport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77541. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle.

Brazosport within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

34 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Brazosport between 2000 and 2017, burning about 483 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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
Smoking11
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
5 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTER POINT
21 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBrazoria National Wildlife RefugeSLOPASSIST
12 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePORT FREEPORT
6 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVELASCO
22 August 2012Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceYELLOWSTONE LEVEE
11 August 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service332/690
10 August 2016Natural2.7 acresBrazoria National Wildlife RefugeHIDEAWAY FIRE
5 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINTERCOASTAL WATERWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Brazosport: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Bryan Mound MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1904, 1912, 1968
Dow Chemical PlantMagnesiteProducer
Dow Freeport Plants A and BMagnesitePlant1941
Us Gypsum Freeport PlantMagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brazosport in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 tornado. 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
April 1993Tornado (F1)Brazosport$50,000The newspaper in Brazosport Facts reported a tornado knocked down three trees. A pecan tree was knocked onto a mobile home causing major damage in Holiday Lakes area.

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
Surfside0.9 miles12
Quintana1.0 miles12
Midway1.3 miles12
Surfside Beach1.4 miles12
Quintana Beach1.7 miles12
Freeport2.4 miles12
Velasco2.6 miles12
Velasco Heights3.9 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.

Wikipedia article on BrazosportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q114119966The 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 2034782. 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.