BlockBefore

Port Aransas, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Port Aransas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78373. It lies near Salt Island. The Survey maps it on the Port Aransas quadrangle. 2,904 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Port Aransas within Nueces County

On record in Port Aransas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Port Aransas between 2008 and 2015, burning about 60 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNATIONAL SEA SHORE
2 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARBOR ISLAND
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHABOR ISLAND 2
27 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service705 AVE G
18 April 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAND CASTLE STREET PORT ARANSAS
18 October 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6400 STATE HWY 361

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Aransas in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 11 flash flood, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. 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
September 2007Tornado (EF0)Port Aransas$5,000A weak waterspout moved onshore at Port Aransas as a tornado. The weak tornado produced minor damage before dissipating. Minor damage was reported to a few roofs of residents. Patio furniture and debris was scattered across yards and streets.|
April 2023Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-C-MAN Sentinel station near Port Aransas measured a gust to 61 mph.
May 2021Flash FloodPort Aransas-Street flooding occurred in Port Aransas from heavy rain, stranding at least one vehicle.
October 2021Flash FloodPort Aransas-RV park near Gulf Street and West Avenue A had flood waters up to car bumpers. Pictures were posted on social media.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-Port Aransas TCOON site measured a gust to 58 mph.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-Port Aransas C-MAN station measured a gust to 62 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-TCOON site at Port Aransas measured a gust to 58 mph.
June 2017Flash FloodPort Aransas-Roads were closed near Avenue J in Port Aransas due to high water.
May 2016Flash FloodPort Aransas-Portions of Eleventh Street in Port Aransas were impassable due to flood waters.
September 2015Flash FloodPort Aransas-KIII-TV received a social media report of flooding in Port Aransas.
May 2015Flash FloodPort Aransas-Public relayed pictures of flooding in Port Aransas.
May 2015Flash FloodPort Aransas-Numerous roads were flooded in Port Aransas.
April 2015Flash FloodPort Aransas-Significant amount of water flooded Cotter Avenue in Port Aransas.
July 2006Flash FloodPort Aransas-Heavy rainfall of 4 to 6 inches left many city streets flooded with one to two feet of water over them. City officials reported several cars stalled in the high water. The following are 24 rainfall totals:Port Aransas (COOP): 5.44 inches
July 2003Tornado (F0)Port Aransas-Tornado began as a Waterspout on the Gulf of Mexico side of Mustang Island. It crossed the island 11 miles Southwest of Port Aransas along Highway 361 as a tornado moving North. It then dissipated over the island. No damage was reported on land or water.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-A small security building to a condominium complex received major damage. Minor roof damage also occurred at an apartment complex, several homes and a nightclub. Power lines were also blown down.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-Police Department report of strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 1997Funnel CloudPort Aransas-Two funnel clouds reported near the Port Aransas jetties near San Jose Island and Cove Harbor.
April 1995HailPort Aransas-The Port Aransas police reported hail.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-The Port Aransas Police reported a 1200 foot fully loaded tanker was pushed into the Port Aransas Jetties. The Corpus Christi Police reported a ten foot tall palm tree blown over and penny-size hail in the City.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-no account filed
March 2000Flash FloodPort Aransas-no account filed
August 1997Funnel CloudPort Aransas-no account filed
August 1997Funnel CloudPort Aransas-no account filed
April 1997Flash FloodPort Aransas-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindPort Aransas-no account filed

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
Mustang Beach2.6 miles15
Flour Bluff16.0 miles14
North Beach17.5 miles12
Peary Place17.6 miles14
Corpus Christi17.9 miles12
Gardendale19.2 miles14
Nueces21.3 miles12
Flour Bluff Junction23.1 miles12

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 Port AransasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969386The 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 1344363. 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.