Mooredale, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Needville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77461. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Guy quadrangle.

Mooredale within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Guy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mooredale between 2006 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
26 August 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HURTA ROAD
14 August 2013	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURN BAN 1
13 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HURTA ROAD
23 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BARAK ROAD
23 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 February 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 February 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	BUFFALO CREEK #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend 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 Mooredale: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Boling Dome	Sulfur	Past Producer	1922, 1929

Every working recorded in Fort Bend 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Guy	3.3 miles	11
Needville	6.1 miles	10
Long Point	7.5 miles	10
Fairchilds	8.7 miles	10
Pleak	12.4 miles	10
Whaley Corner	12.4 miles	10
Kendleton	13.1 miles	9
Beasley	13.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380209. 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.