BlockMustang Beach, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Port Aransas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78373. It lies near Pelone Island. The Survey maps it on the Port Aransas quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Aransas Pass quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Aransas Pass quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Port Aransas quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Port Aransas quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Port Aransas quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mustang Beach between 2008 and 2015, burning about 60 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NATIONAL SEA SHORE |
| 2 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HARBOR ISLAND |
| 29 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HABOR ISLAND 2 |
| 27 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 705 AVE G |
| 18 April 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SAND CASTLE STREET PORT ARANSAS |
| 18 October 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6400 STATE HWY 361 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Aransas | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Flour Bluff | 13.4 miles | 14 | |
| Peary Place | 15.1 miles | 14 | |
| North Beach | 15.9 miles | 12 | |
| Corpus Christi | 16.2 miles | 12 | |
| Gardendale | 16.8 miles | 14 | |
| Nueces | 19.7 miles | 12 | |
| Flour Bluff Junction | 21.3 miles | 12 |
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 Q122572339 | The 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 1342297. 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.