Peters, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sealy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77474. It stands on Pine Tree Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sealy quadrangle. It stands 174 feet above sea level.

Peters within Austin 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Sealy quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Sealy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Peters between 1998 and 2020, burning about 958 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
20 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	700 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 August 2020	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
17 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1094 GRASS FIRE
12 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 36 & GRUBBS RD
11 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ IGNOSKIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peters: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Austin 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
Macedonia	2.0 miles	11
Millheim	3.4 miles	11
Burleigh	4.5 miles	10
Sealy	5.7 miles	11
San Felipe	6.5 miles	13
Bellville	7.3 miles	9
Cat Spring	7.4 miles	11
Frydek	9.0 miles	13

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 Peters	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711234	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 1378852. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.