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Garden Acres, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Alvin-Pearland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77581. The Survey maps it on the Pearland quadrangle.

Garden Acres within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

55 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Garden Acres between 2007 and 2020, burning about 337 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA036, E061
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
14 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE024, E047
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE061
8 July 2008Debris and open burning10 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Garden Acres: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, 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
Fellow Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Manvell Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1929

Every working 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
West Oaks0.4 miles13
Hickory Creek Place0.6 miles13
West Oaks Village0.9 miles13
Westchester Estates1.0 miles13
Ryan Acres1.5 miles13
Magnolia Place1.6 miles13
Pearland1.6 miles13
Westminster1.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471965. 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.