Danciger, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brazoria-West Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77480. The Survey maps it on the Danciger quadrangle. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Danciger within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Danciger quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Danciger between 2011 and 2014, burning about 33 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
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	DANCE BAYOU
17 March 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILLIAMS RD PASTURE
12 November 2012	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ASHWOOD ARSON
1 November 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PLEDGER CR 122

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danciger in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Danciger	$25,000	Trees down and over highway along FM 1301.

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Old Ocean	7.3 miles	10
Damon	9.3 miles	10
West Columbia	9.4 miles	11
Hasima	10.2 miles	11
Abercrombie	10.2 miles	11
East Columbia	11.0 miles	10
Sweeny	11.2 miles	10
Wild Peach Village	11.5 miles	10

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 Danciger	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5215433	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 1355627. 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.