Old River-Winfree, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Mont Belvieu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77523. It lies near Cherry Point Gully. The Survey maps it on the Cove quadrangle.

Old River-Winfree within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Cove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Cove quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Cove quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Old River-Winfree between 1999 and 2011, burning about 134 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	57 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIVINGSTON - 819
5 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 October 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 October 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Old River-Winfree: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Diamond Shamrock Barbers Hill Brine	Salt	Producer
	Lost Lake Salt Dome	Halite	Occurrence	1925

Every working recorded in Chambers 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
Cove	3.2 miles	12
Mont Belvieu	3.4 miles	15
Wallisville	5.3 miles	12
Eminence	7.9 miles	12
Turtle Bayou	9.2 miles	12
Anahuac	10.3 miles	12
Hankamer	10.9 miles	12
Monroe City	14.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1388234. 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.