Hoskins, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alvin-Pearland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77531. It stands on Hoskins Mound. The Survey maps it on the Hoskins Mound quadrangle.

Hoskins within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1943 USGS Chocolate Bay quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Hoskins Mound quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

8 of 39 photographs shown, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Freeport Sulphur Company. Hoskins Mound, Texas. Pipe storage. Pipelines are laid for carrying superheated water to the wells and for carrying melted sulphur to relay stations and to the vats
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Loading railroad cars with sulphur
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Control room at a relay station for the flow of sulphur from the wells to the vats
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. A driller at a sulphur well
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Clearing sulphur off the railroad tracks after blasting
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Cleaning sulphur off railroad tracks after blasting
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Lowering dynamite into hole preparatory to blasting from top of vat
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Sulphur vat from which trains are being loaded
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Brazoria County

Fires near this place

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Hoskins between 1993 and 2020, burning about 20,187 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 8 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
Natural	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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 September 1993	Debris and open burning	37 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	DITCH1ESC
3 September 1996	Natural	428 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	SHRIMPFARM
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	250 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	CHRISTMAS
1 September 2011	Natural	42 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	BERMUDA FIRE
7 August 2005	Natural	633 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	BLUESTEM EAST
5 August 1997	Debris and open burning	515 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	ESCAPE1
31 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	FIREHALL MYSTERY FIRE
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	TX-TMR-FY19-WF-HOSKINS TRUCK

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 Hoskins: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
	Hoskins Mound Mine	Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure	Past Producer	1903, 1923, 1955

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
Port Morris	3.1 miles	11
Mims	4.3 miles	12
Bastrop Beach	7.5 miles	12
Peterson Landing	7.5 miles	10
Danbury	8.7 miles	11
Oyster Creek	10.4 miles	12
Van Pelt	10.4 miles	11
Angleton	10.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379963. 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.