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Morgans Point, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77571. It stands on San Jacinto River. The Survey maps it on the Morgans Point quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Morgans Point within Harris County

On record in Morgans Point

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Morgans Point fell from 339 to 273 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010339
2020273-66 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Morgans Point between 1992 and 2015, burning about 14 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 1997Natural2.0 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeTXPTBEACH
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDYGLIESHA JEFFERSON
12 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeTPHATFIELD
27 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeTPELDRIDGE
31 July 1992Natural1.0 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeTP CATTLE
6 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2004Naturalunder an acreTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeNO TXP PARKING LOT
4 October 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC15-13570

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morgans Point: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Perlite, Perlite, Vermiculite, Halite, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Exxon Baytown RefinerySulfurPlant
Cedar Point Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1938
Filter Media IncPerlite, VermiculiteProducer
Laporte Perlite PlantPerliteProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgans Point in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMorgans Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
East La Porte1.3 miles16
Bayridge Park1.4 miles16
Bay Shore Park1.6 miles16
Oak Park1.8 miles16
La Porte1.8 miles16
La Porte Terrace2.3 miles16
Sylvan Beach2.5 miles16
Bay Oaks3.0 miles16

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 Morgans PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979612The 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 1388192. 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.

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.