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Peary Place, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78412. The Survey maps it on the Oso Creek NE quadrangle.

Peary Place within Nueces County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

92 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Peary Place between 2006 and 2018, burning about 2,109 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning16
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8699 YORKTOWN
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-185
12 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-142
1 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6533 PATTI
30 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-174
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-172

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peary Place in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2016Thunderstorm WindPeary Place$25,000A section of chain linked fence around 50 feet long was ripped off fence posts at Dorothy Adkins Middle School.

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Flour Bluff2.5 miles14
Gardendale3.5 miles14
Corpus Christi9.2 miles12
Chapman Ranch9.4 miles12
North Beach10.4 miles12
Flour Bluff Junction11.5 miles12
Nueces11.8 miles12
San Juan12.9 miles13

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 Q122595874The 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 1343738. 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.