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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1920 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:31680
- 1932 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
41 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 21695 IH45 |
| 19 September 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS |
| 7 August 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 12-0000523 |
| 5 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11-0000474 |
| 5 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11-0000473 |
| 7 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E070 |
| 25 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E094 |
| 17 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E093 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seabrook Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Webster Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1934 |
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Clear Lake City | $50,000 | Damage to awning at gas station. Funnel cloud sighted in the area at the time. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear Lake City | $30,000 | Trees uprooted area-wide from 2900 block of Bay Area Blvd. to Red Bluff. Signs and trees blown down at Clear Lake High School. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear Lake City | $25,000 | Garage doors and trees blown down at NASA. Several car windows also broken due to flying debris. |
| November 1995 | Hail | Clear Lake City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear Lake City | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree and numerous tree limbs. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Clear Lake City | $4,000 | Vehicles were stalled on Saturn Lane. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Clear Lake City | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear Lake City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Clear Lake City | - | Golf ball sized hail damaged cars and roofs. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Clear Lake City | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear Lake City | - | Several trees were downed. |
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Clear Lake City | - | Flooding observed near the Space Center Boulevard and Bay Area Boulevard intersection. |
| October 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear Lake City | - | Three large trees were downed by strong thunderstorm winds in Nassau Bay, blocking local roads. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Clear Lake City | - | Penny sized hail was reported. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear Lake City | - | Wind gust was observed at the Johnson Space Center. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clear 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 2014 | Heavy Rain | Clear Lake City | - | Heavy rainfall has caused some road flooding at the intersection of Bay Area Boulevard and Space Center Boulevard. |
| July 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Clear Lake City | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Clear Lake City | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Clear Lake City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Lake | 0.7 miles | 18 | |
| University Green | 0.8 miles | 19 | |
| Camino South | 0.8 miles | 18 | |
| Webster | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| Pipers Meadow | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Nassau Bay | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Oak Brook West | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Sterling Knoll | 1.8 miles | 18 |
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.









