Lazy Bend, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77565. It stands on Jarbo Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle.

Lazy Bend within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1916 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1920 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:31680
1932 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lazy Bend between 2008 and 2014, burning about 279 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1910 DELLORE, LC, FIRE
26 February 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOUSTON
18 December 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	800 E NASA
9 November 2008	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-0000607
30 January 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BAYRIDGE
13 January 2009	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SUNSET RIDGE
12 January 2008	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston 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
Clear Lake Shores	0.3 miles	19
Kemah	0.4 miles	19
Bay Breeze	0.6 miles	19
Foster Place	0.9 miles	19
Kemah Park	1.1 miles	19
Seagate	1.1 miles	19
Glen Cove	1.1 miles	19
South Shore Village	1.7 miles	19

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 Q122543487

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 2472081. 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.