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Flour Bluff, Texas

14 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 78418. The Survey maps it on the Oso Creek NE quadrangle.

Flour Bluff within Nueces County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

95 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Flour Bluff between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,791 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning16
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2

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
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8699 YORKTOWN
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-185
12 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-142
1 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-174
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-172
30 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-173

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

10 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flour Bluff in 10 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 5 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2021Flash FloodFlour Bluff$10,000Streets near HEB in Flour Bluff along with nearby streets were flooded with several cars stranded.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFlour Bluff$5,000Large tree was uprooted near Waldron Road and Don Patricio Road in Flour Bluff.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFlour Bluff$5,000Parking lot light pole was blown over in Flour Bluff.
May 2025Heavy RainFlour Bluff-PWS has measured 3.1 inches of rain in 90 minutes.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFlour Bluff-KNGP measured 60 mph gusts.
May 2025FloodFlour Bluff-Off duty NWS employee shows photos significant street flooding.
June 2025Heavy RainFlour Bluff-A total of 3.96 inches of rain over a 3 hour period.
June 2025Heavy RainFlour Bluff-Total rainfall accumulation of 3.10 inches.
June 2025Heavy RainFlour Bluff-Total rainfall accumulation of 3.59 inches.
September 2025Heavy RainFlour Bluff-Weather station on Padre Island measured 2.65 inches.

Every storm 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
Peary Place2.5 miles14
Gardendale5.8 miles14
Corpus Christi10.7 miles12
Chapman Ranch11.0 miles12
North Beach11.7 miles12
Mustang Beach13.4 miles15
Flour Bluff Junction13.7 miles12
Nueces13.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1335977. 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.

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.