Drews Landing, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Shepherd-Evergreen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77371. The Survey maps it on the Schwab City quadrangle.

Drews Landing within San Jacinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Schwab City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

77 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Drews Landing between 1993 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN JACINTO 15:00
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELMORE LOOP
5 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 314
5 September 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 42
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BLUEBIRD
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Jacinto 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
Urbana	5.2 miles	12
Lake Water Wheel	5.6 miles	13
Lake Tejas	7.2 miles	13
Shepherd	7.8 miles	13
Strington	8.3 miles	13
Napier	8.7 miles	12
Camilla	11.1 miles	14
Rose Hill	12.6 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122596950

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 1379679. 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.