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Elizabeth, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Beaumont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77706. The Survey maps it on the Beaumont West quadrangle.

Elizabeth within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

43 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Elizabeth between 1999 and 2015, burning about 643 acres in total. 1 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIETH RD
3 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUT AID/BMT
2 September 2013Debris and open burning136 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9166
2 September 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service105/DEBRIS
12 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/BRUSH
6 August 2012Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabeth in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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
June 2025Flash FloodElizabeth$50,000Numerous streets flooded in Beaumont with cars stalled on North 11th and on the I-10 service road.
December 2020Thunderstorm WindElizabeth$4,000A tree was downed on to a home.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindElizabeth-A KFDM mesonet site recorded a wind gust of 60mph.
May 2018HailElizabeth-Multiple reports of quarter size hail was reported along Major Drive in Beaumont.
June 2017Flash FloodElizabeth-The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department reported street flooding in Beaumont including along Brooks Road.
June 2010Funnel CloudElizabeth-A Skywarn Spotter reported a funnel cloud on the west side of Beaumont.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Amelia0.5 miles15
Caldwood1.7 miles15
Calder Terrace1.9 miles15
Caldwood Acres2.1 miles15
Sunnyside2.2 miles15
Calder Highlands2.7 miles15
Walden3.5 miles15
Meeker3.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1335310. 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.