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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.

Loyola Beach within Kleberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY BALE/GRASS FIRE
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKLEBERG COUNTY BEACH FIRE
18 July 2001Arson/incendiarism300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 4
18 July 2001Arson/incendiarism100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 3
11 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKLEBERG COUNTY FIRE
11 April 2018Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service771
11 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVIERA BEACH
16 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKLEBERG COUNTY GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kleberg County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2003Flash FloodLoyola Beach-State Highway 628 near Loyola Beach was flooded.
June 2003Flash FloodLoyola Beach-Flooding reported along County Road 620.

Every storm recorded in Kleberg 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vattman2.7 miles12
Vattmannville3.0 miles9
Riviera Beach3.4 miles12
Riviera6.8 miles9
Ricardo10.3 miles9
El Martillo13.1 miles10
Kingsville15.2 miles9
Ojo de Angua17.1 miles10

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6694535The 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.