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Calder Terrace, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Beaumont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77706. The Survey maps it on the Beaumont West quadrangle.

Calder Terrace within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Calder Terrace between 1999 and 2015, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIETH RD
3 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUT AID/BMT
14 June 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/KIETH
21 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDISHMAN/DEBRIS
18 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALL HAY FIRE
26 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOSL/GRASS

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 Calder Terrace: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bromine. 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
Beaumont PlantBromineProducer

Every working 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
Caldwood0.8 miles15
Calder Highlands0.9 miles15
Sunnyside1.4 miles15
Elizabeth1.9 miles15
Caldwood Acres1.9 miles15
Amelia2.2 miles15
Pine Crest2.9 miles19
Helbig2.9 miles14

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 Q122541651The 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 1331870. 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.