Orozimbo, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brazoria-West Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77430. The Survey maps it on the Otey quadrangle.

Orozimbo within Brazoria 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 Otey 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

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Orozimbo between 2005 and 2011, burning about 1,520 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
1 August 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
23 May 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND/GRASS
27 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MANOR LAKE
4 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MAPLE @ CR 39
26 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURSH FIRE
22 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,500 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE ROAD FIRE
25 January 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	18110 CEDAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria 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
Otey	2.8 miles	11
Holiday Lakes	4.4 miles	10
Chenango	6.3 miles	11
Anchor	6.3 miles	11
Lochridge	7.3 miles	11
China Grove	7.6 miles	11
Bailey Prairie	7.9 miles	10
East Columbia	8.0 miles	10

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 Q122540008

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 1380311. 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.