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City-by-the Sea, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Rockport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78336. It lies near Estes Flats. The Survey maps it on the Estes quadrangle.

City-by-the Sea within Aransas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

131 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of City-by-the Sea between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,219 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/RABBIT RUN
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service188
17 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service439
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITHPM
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHAVER
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service381
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aransas 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 City-by-the Sea: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Redfish Bay DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Aransas 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
Estes0.9 miles15
Palm Harbor1.4 miles15
Shell Ridge3.9 miles15
Rockport5.5 miles11
Key Allegro7.3 miles11
Fulton8.3 miles11
Copano Village9.7 miles11
Lamar14.0 miles9

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 Q122546859The 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 1332870. 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.