BlockPatton Woods, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bolivar Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77650. It lies near Goat Island. The Survey maps it on the Flake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1931 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Flake quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Flake quadrangle1:25000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Patton Woods between 2008 and 2010, burning about 50 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND FIRE |
| 17 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stingaree | 0.3 miles | 16 | |
| Crystal Beach | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Elmgrove | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Bolivar Beach | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Bolivar Peninsula | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Caplen | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Rollover | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Port Bolivar | 8.3 miles | 15 |
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 Q122543221 | 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 1381091. 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.