Griffing Park, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Arthur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77642. The Survey maps it on the Port Arthur North quadrangle.

Griffing Park within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1943 USGS Port Arthur North quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Port Arthur quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Port Arthur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Port Arthur quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Port Arthur North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Port Arthur quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Port Arthur quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Port Arthur quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Port Arthur quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Arthur North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Griffing Park between 2005 and 2013, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
31 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GREENHILL
17 November 2005	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 387
17 November 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 386

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Griffing Park: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mid-County Dirt Pit	Silica	Producer
Port Arthur Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer
Port Arthur Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer
Port Arthur Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pear Ridge	0.7 miles	16
Port Arthur	1.3 miles	16
Lakeview	1.4 miles	16
Groves	2.1 miles	16
Atreco	4.8 miles	16
Nederland	5.3 miles	16
West Port Arthur	5.4 miles	16
Port Neches	5.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1358443. 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.