Long Point, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Needville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77461. The Survey maps it on the Smithers Lake quadrangle. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Long Point within Fort Bend 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Lake George quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Smithers Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 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

28 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Long Point between 2005 and 2019, burning about 344 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MEGAN DRIVE
28 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
26 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
12 August 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 May 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 361
23 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 March 2011	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TREE & BRUSH BURNING THAT OGT OUT OF CONTROL
8 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	210 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOLFGANG RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Long Point: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Halite. 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
	Long Point Dome Mine	Sulfur, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Halite	Producer	1924, 1930
	Jefferson Lake Sulphur	Sulfur	Producer

Every working recorded in Fort Bend 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
Fairchilds	3.8 miles	10
Guy	4.2 miles	11
Whaley Corner	4.9 miles	10
Needville	5.6 miles	10
Mooredale	7.5 miles	11
Pleak	7.9 miles	10
Bridlewood Estates	9.7 miles	11
Crabb	10.2 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 Long Point	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6673076	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 1378606. 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.