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McNorton, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78409. The Survey maps it on the Annaville quadrangle.

McNorton within Nueces County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of McNorton between 2008 and 2016, burning about 203 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO RD 44 & 1694
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIOLET FIRE
11 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOE FULTON CORRIDOR
28 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of McNorton: 4 producers, 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Corpus Christi Zinc RefineryZinc, CadmiumPlant
(Facility) Koch Corpus Christi RefinerySulfurPlant
General Dredging Corp Shell DredgeStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
P P G Industries Inc OperationSilicaProducer
Haas Trucking Company OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Nueces 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
Clarkwood1.9 miles13
Arlington Heights2.2 miles13
Viola2.2 miles13
Annaville3.0 miles13
Flour Bluff Junction3.1 miles12
San Juan3.1 miles13
Violet3.6 miles13
Nueces4.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122548558The 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 1341273. 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.