Loyola Beach, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Riviera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78379. It stands on AraƱa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riviera Beach quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1928 USGS Sarita quadrangle1:125000
- 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Riviera Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS Riviera Beach quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Baffin Bay quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Loyola Beach between 2001 and 2019, burning about 611 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 | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY BALE/GRASS FIRE |
| 15 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KLEBERG COUNTY BEACH FIRE |
| 18 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 4 |
| 18 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 3 |
| 11 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KLEBERG COUNTY FIRE |
| 11 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 771 |
| 11 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RIVIERA BEACH |
| 16 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KLEBERG COUNTY GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loyola Beach in 2 storm reports in 2003: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2003 | Flash Flood | Loyola Beach | - | State Highway 628 near Loyola Beach was flooded. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Loyola Beach | - | Flooding reported along County Road 620. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vattman | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Vattmannville | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Riviera Beach | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Riviera | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Ricardo | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| El Martillo | 13.1 miles | 10 | |
| Kingsville | 15.2 miles | 9 | |
| Ojo de Angua | 17.1 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.
| Wikipedia article on Loyola Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6694535 | 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 1340705. 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.








