Lochridge, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77583. The Survey maps it on the Otey quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Lochridge within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Otey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Lochridge between 2009 and 2011, burning about 50 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	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
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2827 PEARCE LANE
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 528 @ OLD COFFEE LAKE DRIVE
21 August 2011	Smoking	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	17102 FM 521
8 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1700 BLOCK BRAZOS AVE.
13 July 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 42 305
16 June 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	16400 BLOCK CR 569
31 May 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6430 CR 42
30 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM1462 @ CR 39

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
English	1.5 miles	11
Sandy Point	3.5 miles	11
Rosharon	3.8 miles	11
Otey	4.7 miles	11
China Grove	4.8 miles	11
Bonney	5.1 miles	11
Orozimbo	7.3 miles	11
Chenango	7.8 miles	11

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 Lochridge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6665163	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 1380093. 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.