BlockCrystal Beach, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bolivar Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77650. The Survey maps it on the Flake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1931 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Flake quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Flake quadrangle1:25000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Beach between 2008 and 2010, burning about 50 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND FIRE |
| 17 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Beach in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 lightning, 1 waterspout. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2003 | Lightning | Crystal Beach | 1 killed, 1 hurt | Two men struck by lightning, one fatality. |
| June 2009 | Lightning | Crystal Beach | 1 killed | A male jogger was found dead on Crystal Beach. The victim was found with burns on his torso. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Beach | $25,000 | Roof blown off house and power lines down. |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Crystal Beach | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Beach | $20,000 | Wind damage. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Beach | $7,000 | Some travel trailers were flipped over. |
| October 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Crystal Beach | $5,000 | An EF-0 tornado lifted up and spun a sheriff's patrol vehicle. There was also damage to a boat storage unit. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Crystal Beach | $5,000 | 3/4 inch hail. |
| July 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Crystal Beach | - | A funnel cloud was sighted along the Bolivar Peninsula near the Rancho Caribe neighborhood as a thunderstorm lingered offshore. |
| July 1999 | Waterspout | Crystal Beach | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stingaree | 0.3 miles | 16 | |
| Patton Woods | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Elmgrove | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Bolivar Beach | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Bolivar Peninsula | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Caplen | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Rollover | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Port Bolivar | 8.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1333761. 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.