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El Bernardo, 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 Sweeny quadrangle.

El Bernardo within Brazoria County

On record in El Bernardo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

33 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of El Bernardo between 2008 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 347
5 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGST. PAUL
28 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGST. PAUL
28 August 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 244
31 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 244
17 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAN AMERICA
10 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 244F
24 June 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 586

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of El Bernardo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pand W Materials Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Bernardo in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2016Thunderstorm WindEl Bernardo$15,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged a barn near the intersection of County Road 521 and County Road 729.
May 2016HailEl Bernardo-Quarter size hail was reported about two miles southeast of Sweeney.
July 2010Flash FloodEl Bernardo-Numerous roads were closed due to high water in and around Sweeny and West Columbia.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sweeny2.4 miles10
Wild Peach2.5 miles10
Four Corners2.7 miles10
Wild Peach Village3.2 miles10
Brazoria4.4 miles10
Old Brazoria4.8 miles10
Abercrombie5.4 miles11
Old Ocean5.8 miles10

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 Q122571116The 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 1379706. 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.