BlockPledger, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77482. The Survey maps it on the Pledger quadrangle. It stands 66 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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
- 1952 USGS Pledger quadrangle1:24000, 3 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
11 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pledger between 2008 and 2013, burning about 11 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PLEDGER HOUSE/TREE |
| 15 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOWNSEND TRASH/BRUSH |
| 8 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PLEDGER-WMS RD |
| 12 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge | DANCE BAYOU |
| 9 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PLEDGER HWY |
| 26 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PLEDGER HWY |
| 17 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILLIAMS RD PASTURE |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pledger in 2 storm reports in 2017: 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Pledger | - | Flooded and impassable roadways with sections of SH 60 from FM 2668 and FM 521 near Wadsworth. Portions of SH 35 near Bay City were flooded.||The El Dorado, Oak Grove, and Tres Palacios subdivisions along the Tres Palacios River flooded. Major flooding occurred in Bay City along the Colorado River as levees were over topped by two feet. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Pledger | - | High rainfall lead to the flash flooding and eventual closure of FM 1301 at FM 1728 in Pledger. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashwood | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Sugar Valley | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Van Vleck | 11.4 miles | 10 | |
| Allenhurst | 12.4 miles | 11 | |
| Bay City | 14.2 miles | 7 | |
| Caney | 15.4 miles | 7 | |
| Rugeley | 16.0 miles | 7 | |
| Markham | 17.4 miles | 8 |
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 Pledger | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7204439 | 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 1365464. 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.