BlockChina Grove, 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 77583. 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
Fires near this place
29 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of China Grove between 2009 and 2012, burning about 67 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2827 PEARCE LANE |
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 21 August 2011 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17102 FM 521 |
| 18 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM1462 & CR 606 |
| 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 |
| 25 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1103 CR 713B AIRLINE |
| 22 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1462 1/4 E OF FM 521 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 China Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5099703 | 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 1379540. 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.