BlockKamey, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kamey-Sixmile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77979. The Survey maps it on the Kamey quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Kamey quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 Kamey quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
27 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Kamey between 2008 and 2020, burning about 134 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1090 TRACTOR FIRE |
| 14 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHAVANA |
| 14 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LANDER RD FIRE |
| 12 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LANDER ROAD FIRE |
| 11 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1090 DITCH FIRE |
| 18 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LANDER ROAD FIRE |
| 30 April 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE HWY 87 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kamey in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kamey | $50,000 | A microburst resulted in localized damage at a residence outside of Port Lavaca, overturning a travel trailer, uprooting an air conditioning unit, damaging an exterior power meter to the home, and producing tree damage. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kamey | - | Mesonet station northwest of Port Lavaca measured a gust to 61 mph. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Kamey | - | Water was over the road on Farm to Market Road 1679 southwest of the Highway 87 intersection. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Station | 2.2 miles | 8 | |
| Sixmile | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Heyser | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Port Lavaca | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Green Lake | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| North Seadrift | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Alamo Beach | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Point Comfort | 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.
| Wikidata item Q122544596 | 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 1360491. 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.