Holly Beach, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78578. It lies near Loma de la Grulla. The Survey maps it on the La Coma quadrangle.

Holly Beach within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1929 USGS La Coma quadrangle1:24000
1934 USGS La Coma quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS La Coma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Holly Beach between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,822 acres in total. 4 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	14
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 August 2012	Natural	60 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	BOSWELL
22 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	BUNKERS
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	WALLER N/O
29 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.3 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	WALLER
22 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
18 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	LAGUNA EAST
5 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAGUNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Laguna Vista	2.4 miles	15
Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia	4.2 miles	15
Laguna Heights	4.3 miles	15
Bayview	5.7 miles	11
Port Isabel	6.1 miles	14
South Padre Island	7.1 miles	14
La Aura Crossing	7.7 miles	15
Carretas Crossing	8.0 miles	15

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 Holly Beach	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q124304182	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 2034189. 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.