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Fuqua, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hardin-Rye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77369. It stands on Meetinghouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Votaw quadrangle. It stands 115 feet above sea level.

Fuqua within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

80 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Fuqua between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,849 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 26 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
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural13
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2012Natural15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8070
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOUTLAW BEND BURN BAN
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 654
18 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOLK 15:59
15 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution19 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8083
10 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8079

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fuqua: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Rye Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trinity River Dredge OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fuqua in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 flash 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
February 2012Flash FloodFuqua$10,000Heavy rainfall caused numerous road closures between the towns of Cleveland, Shepherd, and Segno. A rainfall total of 9.30 inches was recorded by a cooperative weather observer in the community of Ace.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Hoop and Holler1.5 miles14
Rye1.8 miles12
Marvels1.8 miles12
Big Thicket Creekmore Village2.9 miles12
Milvid3.3 miles12
Clark4.1 miles12
Mason Lake Estates5.5 miles12
Romayor5.7 miles12

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 FuquaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710465The 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 1379814. 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.