BlockGreen Lake, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Seadrift census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77979. The Survey maps it on the Green Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Green Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Green Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Green Lake between 2006 and 2018, burning about 23 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FARIK |
| 19 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHATLEY |
| 19 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHAFER |
| 20 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GREEN LAKE |
| 6 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 185 & FARIK |
| 22 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GUADELUPE WLD |
| 12 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2235 COMMAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Lake in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Green Lake | - | Damage estimates due to sorghum and cotton losses in the county were at 3.64 million dollars and 1.50 million dollars respectively across the county due to heavy rainfall. A 55 percent loss occurred with the sorghum crop and 20 percent loss with the cotton crop. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Green Lake | - | Trained spotter reported a tornado briefly touching down over open country near Highway 185, northwest of Green Lake. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Seadrift | 1.7 miles | 8 | |
| Long Mott | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Heyser | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Clark Station | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Kamey | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Seadrift | 8.9 miles | 7 | |
| Port Lavaca | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Alamo Beach | 11.5 miles | 10 |
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 Green Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7348496 | The 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 1379856. 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.
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.