Flour Bluff Junction, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78406. The Survey maps it on the Corpus Christi quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
17 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Flour Bluff Junction between 2008 and 2017, burning about 313 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY RD 26 AND 49A |
| 2 April 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 5217 SUNBELT |
| 11 April 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13724 FM 665 |
| 19 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16-034 |
| 9 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOE FULTON CORRIDOR |
| 28 February 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Flour Bluff Junction: 4 producers, 4 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Corpus Christi Zinc Refinery | Zinc, Cadmium | Plant | ||
| Corpus Christi Texas Plant | Chromium | Producer | ||
| General Dredging Corp Shell Dredge | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| P P G Industries Inc Operation | Silica | Producer | ||
| (Facility) Champlin's Corpus Christi Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Koch Corpus Christi Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Valero Corpus Christi Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Coastal Sulfur Plant | Sulfur | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkwood | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Nueces | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| San Juan | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| McNorton | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Viola | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Arlington Heights | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Corpus Christi | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Violet | 5.4 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.
| Wikidata item Q122558826 | 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 1378305. 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.









