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Clear Lake City, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77058. It stands on Cow Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle.

Clear Lake City within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

41 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Clear Lake City between 2008 and 2020, burning about 247 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
19 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
7 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0000523
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000473
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
17 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clear Lake City: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Seabrook Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clear Lake City in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Clear Lake City$50,000Damage to awning at gas station. Funnel cloud sighted in the area at the time.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City$30,000Trees uprooted area-wide from 2900 block of Bay Area Blvd. to Red Bluff. Signs and trees blown down at Clear Lake High School.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City$25,000Garage doors and trees blown down at NASA. Several car windows also broken due to flying debris.
November 1995HailClear Lake City$10,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City$4,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree and numerous tree limbs.
October 2009Flash FloodClear Lake City$4,000Vehicles were stalled on Saturn Lane.
January 1998HailClear Lake City$3,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City$2,000no account filed
May 2024HailClear Lake City-Golf ball sized hail damaged cars and roofs.
May 2024HailClear Lake City-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City-Several trees were downed.
June 2023Flash FloodClear Lake City-Flooding observed near the Space Center Boulevard and Bay Area Boulevard intersection.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City-Three large trees were downed by strong thunderstorm winds in Nassau Bay, blocking local roads.
July 2019HailClear Lake City-Penny sized hail was reported.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City-Wind gust was observed at the Johnson Space Center.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City-A large segment of an static display Titan IV rocket was displaced approximately 600 yards in an adjacent field on the west end of the Johnson Space Center.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindClear Lake City-Johnson Space Center recorded this wind gust from an anemometer on the top of a building 152 feet above the ground. This speed is an estimated 65 mph gust at the surface. Many small trees and tree limbs were snapped and blown down across a large part of the JSC complex.
October 2014Heavy RainClear Lake City-Heavy rainfall has caused some road flooding at the intersection of Bay Area Boulevard and Space Center Boulevard.
July 2001Funnel CloudClear Lake City-no account filed
January 1995HailClear Lake City-no account filed
May 1994HailClear Lake City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Clear Lake0.7 miles18
University Green0.8 miles19
Camino South0.8 miles18
Webster1.2 miles19
Pipers Meadow1.3 miles18
Nassau Bay1.5 miles19
Oak Brook West1.8 miles18
Sterling Knoll1.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377174. 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.