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Foster Place, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77565. It stands on Jarbo Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle.

Foster Place within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Foster Place between 2008 and 2018, burning about 279 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
29 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1910 DELLORE, LC, FIRE
13 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWFD180000577
26 February 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOUSTON
18 December 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service800 E NASA
9 November 2008Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000607
30 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAYRIDGE
13 January 2009Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNSET RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston 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
Kemah Park0.3 miles19
Lazy Bend0.9 miles19
South Shore Village0.9 miles19
Kemah1.0 miles19
Bay Breeze1.0 miles19
Seagate1.0 miles19
Clear Lake Shores1.1 miles19
Meadow Bend1.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471952. 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.