BlockHeyser, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Seadrift census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77979. The Survey maps it on the Green Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Green Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Green Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Heyser between 2006 and 2020, burning about 135 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGHWAY 185 GRASS FIRE |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HODDES CIRCLE |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 19 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHATLEY |
| 19 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GREEN LAKE |
| 16 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1686 |
| 6 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 185 & FARIK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heyser in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Heyser | - | Several reports of multiple funnel clouds were received west of Port Lavaca, near the Green Lake area. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Lake | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Kamey | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| North Seadrift | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Clark Station | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Long Mott | 8.2 miles | 8 | |
| Sixmile | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Port Lavaca | 11.3 miles | 8 | |
| Alamo Beach | 13.2 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.
| Wikidata item Q122557457 | 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 1379924. 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.
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.