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Magnolia Beach, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Port Lavaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77979. The Survey maps it on the Port Lavaca East quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Magnolia Beach within Calhoun 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.

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 Magnolia Beach between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,627 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Natural1

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
28 July 2020Natural159 acresAransas National Wildlife RefugeWHITMIRE THREAT
20 July 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,400 acresAransas National Wildlife RefugeTATTON ASSIST 2
25 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRADIO TOWER
2 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG DUKES
5 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAransas National Wildlife RefugeTATTON ASSIST #1
11 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAGNOLIA
24 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLOMA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magnolia Beach in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
October 2006Tornado (F1)Magnolia Beach$100,000Tornado formed just south of Magnolia Beach, near C.R. 2760 and Highway 316. The tornado moved quickly north into northwest Magnolia Beach. Damage was primarily observed along La Lucia Street. Roughly 12 homes received damage, 2 of which suffered major damage and loss of roofs. Three trapped residents had to be rescued from their homes, however no injuries were reported. Approximately 6 power poles were downed and several cars were damaged. Some trees were completely stripped of foliage and limbs.|
August 2011Tornado (EF0)Magnolia Beach$30,000An NWS survey concluded a short lived tornado touched down near Alamo Beach Street and Lee Street in Alamo Beach. Near this point two homes were observed with small portions of their roofs peeled back. Sheet metal was also torn off the side of one of the homes and a window was broken. A third home near the area was observed to have missing shingles. The tornado continued west to a point near F. M. 2717 between Fannin and East Sunrise Streets. At this point, a poorly constructed mobile home with two floors was observed to have significant damage. The top floor was taken off and deposited to the west-southwest. The bottom floor was partially shifted off the blocks but remained upright. A brick facade on the west side of the home collapsed. Maximum winds were estimated to be around 75 mph with a path length of one quarter of a mile and path width of 100 yards.
November 2007Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach$5,000TXDOT barricades were knocked over. Damage to a porch on a home also occurred. A trailer was also flipped over by the winds.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach-Mesonet site at Alamo Beach measured a gust to 68 mph.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach-Wind damage several fish houses were demolished...and a metal pole penetrated a travel trailer at miller's point.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Alamo Beach2.7 miles10
Indianola4.4 miles9
Port Lavaca5.8 miles8
Olivia7.1 miles8
Point Comfort8.3 miles10
Clark Station9.7 miles8
Port Alto9.7 miles8
Port O'Connor10.6 miles8

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 Magnolia BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6731862The 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 1362075. 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.