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Guffey, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the LaBelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77705. It lies near Spindletop Hill. The Survey maps it on the Beaumont East quadrangle.

Guffey within Jefferson County

On record in Guffey

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Guffey between 1996 and 2015, burning about 223 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
31 May 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 77
18 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5100 N HWY 347
17 April 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 111
14 April 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 103
24 March 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 92
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 89
19 March 1996Debris and open burning85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Guffey: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Sulfur, Sulfur, Halite. 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
Spindletop Dome MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1950, 1952, 1976
Beaumont PlantBromineProducer
Beaumont Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Maco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Spindletop Dome Sulfur MineSulfurProducer
Spindletop WellsBromineProducerBrine
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guffey in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGuffey$1,000,000A dock crane was blown over into the Neches Ship Channel. A large salvage crane also broke loose.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindGuffey$400,000At Lamar University, strong winds uplifted and peeled back a large portion of the University Police station and toppled several large trees. A glass wall and several windows were also blown in. On Oregon Ave, the exterior brick wall of an apartment building collapsed. Max estimated wind gusts were between 105 and 110 MPH.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGuffey$20,000A wind gust of 68 MPH was recorded at the Pietzsch-Macarthur School by a KFDM mesonet. A building was also damaged at Gladys City.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGuffey$5,000Power lines were blown down near Lamar University.
June 2015Flash FloodGuffey$1,000Heavy rain trained across portions of Southeast Texas for multiple hours on already saturated soil. This produced flooding around Beaumont which closed some streets including an underpass along MLK Boulevard and stranded at least one motorist on a feeder road of the Eastex Freeway.
January 2012Flash FloodGuffey$1,000The Beaumont Enterprise and KFDM reported Eastex Freeway at East Lucas Drive impassable. Underpasses along MLK Parkway were flooded. Flooding was also reported along Dowlen and Lucas Roads.
August 2010Flash FloodGuffey$1,000KBMT-TV reported S MLK Jr. Parkway was closed around Lamar University due to underpass flooding.
March 2011HailGuffey-Public reported pea to dime size hail near Lamar University.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gladys1.3 miles19
Spindletop1.4 miles19
Lucas1.6 miles12
Zummo1.7 miles19
Dowling2.4 miles19
Hebert2.5 miles12
Higgins2.7 miles19
McFadden2.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378394. 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.