BlockLa Belle, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the LaBelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77705. It lies near Red Haw Gully. The Survey maps it on the Fannett East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Fannett East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Fannett East quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Fannett East quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Fannett East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of La Belle between 2002 and 2015, burning about 277 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 May 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge | BEACH1 |
| 2 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 170 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 183 |
| 3 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KARNES RD GRASS FIRE |
| 10 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 365 |
| 14 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 244-79-15 |
| 4 December 2010 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 486 |
| 14 November 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 1027 |
| 2 January 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11865 MEADOW LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Belle in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Belle | $25,000 | no account filed |
| January 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | La Belle | $15,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down just south of Highway 73, and tracked into the Taylor Landing community. Weak damage to roofs were common, along with uprooted trees and destroyed privacy fences. The tornado ended somewhere in the Taylor Bayou marsh downstream from Taylor Landing. Max estimated winds were 90 mph. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Belle | $3,000 | Multiple trees were downed in the La Belle area. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Belle | $3,000 | Entergy reported over 1000 customers without power across Jefferson County, particularly in the Labelle and Hillebrandt communities. |
| April 2020 | Hail | La Belle | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Landing | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Hillebrandt | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Lovell Lake | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Fannett | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Morey | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Galloway | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Port Acres | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Cheek | 7.5 miles | 12 |
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 La Belle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6460672 | 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 1360796. 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.