BlockCottonwood, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77538. The Survey maps it on the Whites Bayou quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1943 USGS Whites Bayou quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Whites Bayou quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Whites Bayou quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cottonwood between 1996 and 2014, burning about 250 acres in total. None 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIVINGSTON - 669 |
| 11 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 388 |
| 7 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8017 |
| 16 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 43 |
| 17 January 2014 | Debris and open burning | 48 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cottonwood: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hankamer Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1928 |
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottonwood in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Cottonwood | 1 killed, $10,000 | The 25 year old female driver of a vehicle drowned when she drove into a flooded ditch off of FM 1410. The vehicle turned upside down in the ditch. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Cottonwood | - | Roadways SH 321 at US 90, the exit ramp at FM 1010 from the SH 105 and US 59 southbound were closed due to flooding.||There was record level, major flooding along the Trinity River with numerous flooded roads near the river including FM 787. Many homes were flooded north of the town of Liberty. Major flooding was also observed on the east fork of the San Jacinto River that caused significant flooding in Cleveland, Williams and Plum Grove. Numerous homes and businesses along the Highway 59 feeder roads, various roads in the town of Liberty, Wallace Road off of Highway 146, FM 1725, FM 2090, CR 388, CR 381, CR 3880, CR 332, CR 3664, CR 361, CR 3610, CR 3611, CR 3661, CR 349, CR 3612 and CR 3600 were flooded. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abshier Settlement | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Felicia | 7.4 miles | 13 | |
| Devers | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hogpen Crossing | 9.7 miles | 13 | |
| Cow Island | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| Shiloh | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Moore Settlement | 11.0 miles | 13 | |
| Raywood | 11.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379599. 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.