Hasima, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brazoria-West Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77480. It stands on Little Linnville Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Ashwood quadrangle.

Hasima within Brazoria 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Ashwood quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hasima between 2011 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
17 June 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	VALARIS PWR POLE
9 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALLENHURST TRUF
7 October 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALLENHUSRT GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hasima: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sweeny Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Abercrombie	1.2 miles	11
Old Ocean	3.8 miles	10
Sweeny	4.1 miles	10
El Bernardo	6.5 miles	10
Four Corners	7.1 miles	10
Wild Peach Village	8.4 miles	10
Wild Peach	8.6 miles	10
Danciger	10.2 miles	10

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 Hasima	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q114414478	The 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 1379905. 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.