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Hankamer, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anahuac census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77560. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Anahuac quadrangle. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Hankamer within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hankamer between 1996 and 2014, burning about 909 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2000Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 346
30 August 2010Naturalunder an acreAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF OFFICE CHIP PILE
4 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 600
18 June 2010Debris and open burning190 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 226
14 June 1996Debris and open burning90 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2011Debris and open burning63 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 360
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.3 acresAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF TCP OFFICE
3 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 67

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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 Hankamer: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, 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
Hankamer Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1928
Moss Bluff MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1944, 1948, 1982

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hankamer in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2000LightningHankamer1 killedLightning struck and killed 27 year old man.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHankamer$100,000Two cars and a motorcycle overturned on Loop 562 with wind gusts to 60 mph.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHankamer$100,000Back porch ripped off home with barn damaged. Two metal outbuildings damaged on FM 563.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHankamer$25,000Truck blown off highway on I-10 at mile marker 829.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHankamer$15,000Tree down on Hwy. 61.
September 1997HailHankamer$15,000Hail near HWY 61.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHankamer$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines north of Interstate 10 across Speights Road.
August 2008Flash FloodHankamer$5,000Interstate 10 was closed near SH 61 due to heavy rains from Tropical Storm Edouard.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindHankamer$5,000Trees blown down on FM 563
October 1998Thunderstorm WindHankamer$3,000Trees blown down.
January 1998HailHankamer$3,000no account filed
September 2019Flash FloodHankamer-Route 61 under Interstate 10 flooded.
August 2017Flash FloodHankamer-Sections of FM 1724 south of I-10 were closed due to flooding.
August 2017Flash FloodHankamer-Sections of Interstate 10 west of Winnie were inundated and closed due to high flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Turtle Bayou3.0 miles12
Eminence3.8 miles12
Monroe City5.5 miles10
Wallisville6.3 miles12
Anahuac6.6 miles12
Cove9.5 miles12
Old River-Winfree10.9 miles12
Double Bayou11.4 miles10

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 HankamerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5648520The 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 1337306. 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.