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Four Corners, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brazoria-West Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77422. The Survey maps it on the Sweeny quadrangle.

Four Corners within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 2008 and 2009, burning about 31 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
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 August 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 244
31 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 244
17 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAN AMERICA
10 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 244F
8 May 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 347
25 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 244A
25 February 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 204
22 December 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Four Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clemens Dome MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1937, 1960

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Four Corners in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFour Corners$50,000Partial roof loss and damage occurred at a storage facility on FM 521 south of Brazoria.

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
El Bernardo2.7 miles10
Sweeny3.8 miles10
Wild Peach4.8 miles10
Brazoria5.0 miles10
Old Brazoria5.6 miles10
Wild Peach Village5.7 miles10
Hinkles Ferry5.9 miles8
Abercrombie6.1 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on Four CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q114243336The 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 2034923. 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.

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.