BlockChenango, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77515. The Survey maps it on the Rosharon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Rosharon quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
32 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Chenango between 2005 and 2013, burning about 1,570 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-000286 |
| 10 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 48 22400 |
| 1 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 48 1 MILE N OF CR 51 |
| 11 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 288 & CR 523 |
| 23 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND/GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chenango in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Chenango | $20,000 | This EF-0 tornado destroyed a shed and blew off the top of a rice dryer. |
| October 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Chenango | - | A funnel cloud was spotted to the north of Angleton on FM 521 to the west of Highway 288. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| China Grove | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Holiday Lakes | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Bonney | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Otey | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Angleton | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Orozimbo | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Danbury | 6.3 miles | 11 |
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 Chenango | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14710400 | 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 1379536. 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.