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Eminence, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anahuac census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77597. It stands on Turtle Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Anahuac quadrangle.

Eminence within Chambers 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Eminence between 1996 and 2014, burning about 834 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 2010Naturalunder an acreAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF OFFICE CHIP PILE
4 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 600
18 June 2010Debris and open burning190 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 226
14 June 1996Debris and open burning90 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2011Debris and open burning63 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 360
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.3 acresAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF TCP OFFICE
3 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 67
2 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 66

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eminence: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Lost Lake Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1925
Moss Bluff MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1944, 1948, 1982

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eminence in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2012Funnel CloudEminence-Two funnel clouds were sighted in association with slow east and northeast moving thunderstorms.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Turtle Bayou1.3 miles12
Wallisville2.7 miles12
Hankamer3.8 miles12
Anahuac4.2 miles12
Cove5.9 miles12
Monroe City6.6 miles10
Old River-Winfree7.9 miles12
Double Bayou10.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1335440. 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.