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Estes, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Rockport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78382. It stands on Estes Flats. The Survey maps it on the Estes quadrangle.

Estes within Aransas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

173 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Estes between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,342 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined94
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/RABBIT RUN
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service188
23 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLUB
17 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service439
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITHPM
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHAVER
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service330

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aransas 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 Estes: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Redfish Bay DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Aransas 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
Palm Harbor0.6 miles15
City-by-the Sea0.9 miles15
Shell Ridge3.1 miles15
Rockport4.6 miles11
Key Allegro6.5 miles11
Fulton7.4 miles11
Copano Village8.9 miles11
Lamar13.1 miles9

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 EstesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110536042The 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 1378272. 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.