BlockPort Bolivar, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bolivar Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77650. The Survey maps it on the Port Bolivar quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
On record in Port Bolivar
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 2 records
Fort Travislisted 2005
Point Bolivar Lighthouselisted 1977
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1932 USGS Bolivar Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Bolivar Point quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Port Bolivar quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Port Bolivar quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Port Bolivar quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Port Bolivar in 2012, burning about 150 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BISCAYNE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Bolivar in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 waterspout. 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Bolivar | $25,000 | Newspaper reported damage to a bait camp at Sievers Cove. |
| September 2001 | Flash Flood | Port Bolivar | $10,000 | Flooding along Highway 87 on Bolivar Peninsula. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Bolivar | $2,000 | 63 mph wind gust recorded by ferry operator. |
| July 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Port Bolivar | - | A funnel cloud was sighted over Galveston Bay. |
| September 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Port Bolivar | - | Funnel cloud sighted on the bay side of the Bolivar Peninsula. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Port Bolivar | - | One to two feet of water over Highway 87 causing road closure. |
| October 1996 | Waterspout | Port Bolivar | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Travis | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bolivar Beach | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Galveston | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Texas City | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Elmgrove | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| Fort Crockett | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Patton Woods | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Crystal Beach | 8.5 miles | 16 |
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 Bolivar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7230510 | 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 1375528. 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.