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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.

Flour Bluff Junction within Nueces County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

17 since 2008

Regional 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 use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 26 AND 49A
2 April 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5217 SUNBELT
11 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13724 FM 665
19 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-034
9 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOE FULTON CORRIDOR
28 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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.

Every working recorded in Nueces 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
Clarkwood2.5 miles13
Nueces2.6 miles12
San Juan2.7 miles13
McNorton3.1 miles13
Viola4.3 miles13
Arlington Heights5.2 miles13
Corpus Christi5.2 miles12
Violet5.4 miles13

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 Q122558826The 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.