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Guy, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Needville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77444. The Survey maps it on the Guy quadrangle. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Guy within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Guy between 2006 and 2020, burning about 548 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2

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
26 August 2014Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHURTA ROAD
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHURTA ROAD
23 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARAK ROAD
31 May 2010Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 361
23 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined210 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOLFGANG RD
6 February 2009Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1462 @ NORDT ROAD
25 February 2010Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 361

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend 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 Guy: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Halite, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Damon Mound MineSulfur, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Halite, ZincPast Producer1916, 1953, 1957
Dresser MineralsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guy in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2002: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindGuy$25,000Roof torn off a mobile home and a barn damaged.
March 2002Tornado (F0)Guy$20,000A tornado touchdown occurred in Guy, 10 miles southwest of Rosenberg, relayed by Sheriff.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGuy$15,000Trees down.
May 1999HailGuy$15,000Quarter-sized hail along FM 1994.
May 1999HailGuy$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fort Bend 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
Mooredale3.3 miles11
Long Point4.2 miles10
Needville4.8 miles10
Fairchilds6.0 miles10
Whaley Corner9.1 miles10
Pleak10.1 miles10
Beasley12.8 miles9
Kendleton13.4 miles9

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 GuyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5622021The 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 1379873. 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.