BlockFort Travis, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bolivar Peninsula census division. The Survey maps it on the Galveston quadrangle.
On record in Fort Travis
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Fort Travislisted 2005 · 0.1 miles away
Point Bolivar Lighthouselisted 1977 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1930 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fort Travis in 2012, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BISCAYNE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Bolivar | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| Galveston | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bolivar Beach | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Fort Crockett | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Texas City | 7.8 miles | 15 | |
| Elmgrove | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Virginia Point | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Patton Woods | 8.9 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379792. 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.