BlockCollegeport, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Palacios census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77428. It lies near Pepper Hill. The Survey maps it on the Palacios quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1952 USGS Palacios quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Palacios quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Collegeport between 2013 and 2018, burning about 365 acres in total. 1 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 | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 305 FIRE |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 12TH GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MOORE GRASS FIRE |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | E.BAYSHORE & CR 305 |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 305 & E. BAYSHORE |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2853 |
| 17 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NEWSOME FIRE |
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PERRYMAN FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collegeport in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Collegeport | $100,000 | Witnesses report seeing a tornado. Numerous trees and light poles blown down especially near the college. |
| March 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Collegeport | $50,000 | Texas Department of Public Safety reports a tornado damaged one home, destroyed one carport and three barns, knocked down numerous trees, and caused power outages over a wide area. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Collegeport | $5,000 | The Matagorda County Sheriff's Office reported nickel-size hail just south of Farm-to-Market Road 521 near Collegeport. |
| January 2010 | Flash Flood | Collegeport | $2,000 | Area roads around St. Mary's Street, Vietnam Street and St. Joseph's street were impassable due to flooding. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Collegeport | - | There were flooded roadways along East Bayshore Drive as well as on the 700 block of Moore towards Main Street. 30 to 40 percent of the cities' roads were flooded going into the early evening hours. |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Collegeport | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palacios | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Camp Hulen | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Citrus Grove | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Simpsonville | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Tin Top | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Pheasant | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Ashby | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Blessing | 10.3 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Collegeport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8347837 | 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 1379577. 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.
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.