Chocolate Bayou, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alvin-Pearland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77511. The Survey maps it on the Liverpool quadrangle.

Chocolate Bayou within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1943 USGS Chocolate Bayou quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Liverpool quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Chocolate Bayou between 2006 and 2009, burning about 699 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
18 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMP MOHAWK HWY 35 & CR 191
18 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9041
24 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	560 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMP MOHAWK
20 May 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7015 CR 865
19 March 2009	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 171
9 January 2008	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chocolate Bayou in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Chocolate Bayou	-	Mesonet station 024CE39 near Chocolate Springs measured a 59 mph wind gust.
September 2001	Funnel Cloud	Chocolate Bayou	-	Sheriff's office reported a waterspout moved over land as a funnel near Chocolate Bayou and dissipated near Liverpool.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chocolate Springs	0.9 miles	11
Liverpool	1.9 miles	11
Peterson Landing	5.1 miles	10
Hillcrest	5.4 miles	10
Alvin	7.5 miles	15
Danbury	7.7 miles	11
Bonney	10.3 miles	11
China Grove	10.7 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 Chocolate Bayou	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3246607	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 1354458. 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.