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Meadow Bend, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77573. It stands on Robinson Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle.

Meadow Bend within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

25 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Bend between 2008 and 2019, burning about 292 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
19 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
1 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000313
4 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17050 EL CAMINO REAL
29 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1910 DELLORE, LC, FIRE
17 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000247
13 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWFD180000577

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Meadow Bend: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934

Every working recorded in Galveston 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
South Shore Village0.5 miles19
Briar Glen1.3 miles19
Bay Ridge1.4 miles19
Foster Place1.4 miles19
Kemah Park1.5 miles19
Glen Cove1.9 miles19
Lazy Bend2.1 miles19
Clear Lake Shores2.2 miles19

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 Q122541264The 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 2472110. 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.