Harbor City, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Aransas Pass-Ingleside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78362. It sits by McGloins Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Port Ingleside quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Harbor City within San Patricio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

1925 USGS Aransas Pass quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Aransas Pass quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Port Ingleside quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Port Ingleside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

33 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Harbor City (historical) between 2005 and 2018, burning about 134 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	23
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1700SIXTH
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SUSSER
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SIXTH STREET
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	THOMAS
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURNETT
6 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BILLBOARD
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBERT LOVIE 2
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOT BOX 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Patricio 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
Port Ingleside	0.0 miles	14
Ingleside On-the-Bay	1.5 miles	14
Old Ingleside Colonia	1.7 miles	14
Caruthers Cove Colonia	2.0 miles	14
Garza-4th-6th Streets Colonia	2.7 miles	14
Wendy Acres Colonia	3.5 miles	14
Indian Trails Lane Colonia	3.5 miles	14
Ingleside	3.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1829127. 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.