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Gulf Park, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1974. It stands in the Brazosport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77541. The Survey maps it on the Jones Creek quadrangle.

Gulf Park within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Gulf Park between 2008 and 2014, burning about 152 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
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTER POINT
12 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePORT FREEPORT
6 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVELASCO
22 August 2012Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceYELLOWSTONE LEVEE
4 July 2013Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAZOS RIVER AT BAYWOOD
12 July 2011Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHINTECH
4 June 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOW
19 June 2013Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceYELLOWSTONE LEVEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria 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 Gulf Park: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Vanadium, Molybdenum. 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
Bryan Mound MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1904, 1912, 1968
Gulf Chem and Metallurgical PlantVanadium, MolybdenumProducer
A P Green RefractoriesMagnesiteProducer
Us Gypsum Freeport PlantMagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gulf Park in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
August 2016Flash FloodGulf Park$12,000Three to four inches of rain, with near 6 inches in extreme, over a relatively short period of time caused flood waters to be reported entering a few homes within northern Freeport. There were reports of water in at least 5 homes in Velasco along the 800 block of north Avenue F. There were numerous reports of flooded roadways and standing water in and around the Dow Chemical plant.

Every storm 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
Jones Creek2.3 miles9
Oakland2.7 miles9
Velasco Heights2.7 miles12
Velasco2.8 miles12
Freeport2.9 miles12
Midway4.1 miles12
Perry Landing4.2 miles9
Clute4.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1358501. 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.