BlockPearl City, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yoakum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77995. The Survey maps it on the Yoakum quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Yoakum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Pearl City between 2006 and 2017, burning about 357 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 | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FLORES |
| 15 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY RD 327 |
| 3 February 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY RD 324 |
| 11 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 303 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TURKEY BOTTOM RD. |
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.
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 Pearl City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14711223 | 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 1380336. 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.