BlockOtey, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77583. The Survey maps it on the Otey quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 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
16 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Otey between 2005 and 2011, burning about 1,537 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2827 PEARCE LANE |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 528 @ OLD COFFEE LAKE DRIVE |
| 8 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1700 BLOCK BRAZOS AVE. |
| 16 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16400 BLOCK CR 569 |
| 30 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM1462 @ CR 39 |
| 29 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6302 FM 1462 |
| 23 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND/GRASS |
| 18 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 18510 PECAN BAYOU |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otey in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Otey | $15,000 | An EF-0 tornado damaged a barn and destroyed a shed near the Brazos Bend State Park. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orozimbo | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Lochridge | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| China Grove | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Chenango | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Holiday Lakes | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bonney | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| English | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Rosharon | 6.4 miles | 11 |
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 Otey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7108534 | 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 1380315. 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.
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.