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Clarkwood, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78406. The Survey maps it on the Annaville quadrangle.

Clarkwood within Nueces County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Clarkwood between 2006 and 2016, burning about 212 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism2

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
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGLOIN FIRE
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIOLET FIRE
11 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13724 FM 665
9 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOE FULTON CORRIDOR
28 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Clarkwood: 4 producers, 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
(Facility) Corpus Christi Zinc RefineryZinc, CadmiumPlant
(Facility) Koch Corpus Christi RefinerySulfurPlant
General Dredging Corp Shell DredgeStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
P P G Industries Inc OperationSilicaProducer
Haas Trucking Company OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkwood in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018Flash FloodClarkwood-Clarkwood Road at Highway 44 was covered by flood waters.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindClarkwood-ASOS at Corpus Christi International Airport recorded a 59 MPH gust.
July 2008Flash FloodClarkwood-Heavy rainfall, associated with remnants of Hurricane Dolly, caused flooding along Highway 44, near Clarkwood Rd.

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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
San Juan1.2 miles13
McNorton1.9 miles13
Flour Bluff Junction2.5 miles12
Violet2.9 miles13
Arlington Heights3.8 miles13
Viola4.1 miles13
Annaville4.4 miles13
Nueces4.6 miles12

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 Q122554753The 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 1332903. 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.

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.