Chocolate Springs, 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. It stands on Corner Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Liverpool quadrangle.

Chocolate Springs 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 Springs 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

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 Bayou	0.9 miles	11
Liverpool	1.1 miles	11
Peterson Landing	4.6 miles	10
Hillcrest	6.1 miles	10
Danbury	6.9 miles	11
Alvin	8.3 miles	15
Bonney	9.9 miles	11
China Grove	10.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122568510

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 1379546. 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.