Esperanza, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Willis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77378. It stands on Chicken Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willis quadrangle. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Esperanza within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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
1960 USGS Willis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Willis quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Esperanza between 1992 and 2020, burning about 740 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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	87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 September 2004	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 20
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 91
30 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 49
29 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 950
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
26 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Ada	0.1 miles	13
Mount Zion	3.1 miles	13
Willis	4.4 miles	13
Panorama Village	7.4 miles	13
Leonidas	12.1 miles	13
Beach	12.1 miles	14
Conroe	12.3 miles	14
Cut and Shoot	12.8 miles	13

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 Esperanza	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5398874	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 1383397. 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.