Port Morris, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brazosport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77541. It stands on Bastrop Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Christmas Point quadrangle.

Port Morris within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1943 USGS Christmas Point quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Christmas Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Port Morris between 1993 and 2020, burning about 18,681 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 6 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
Natural	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2006	Natural	95 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	CHRISTMAS MARSH
7 September 1993	Debris and open burning	37 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	DITCH1ESC
3 September 1996	Natural	428 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	SHRIMPFARM
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	250 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	CHRISTMAS
23 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	BIGSLOUGH
1 September 2011	Natural	42 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	BERMUDA FIRE
7 August 2005	Natural	633 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	BLUESTEM EAST
5 August 1997	Debris and open burning	515 acres	Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge	ESCAPE1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria 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 Port Morris: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
	Hoskins Mound Mine	Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure	Past Producer	1903, 1923, 1955

Every working recorded in Brazoria 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
Hoskins	3.1 miles	10
Mims	4.5 miles	12
Bastrop Beach	9.0 miles	12
Oyster Creek	9.4 miles	12
Peterson Landing	10.2 miles	10
Lake Barbara	11.0 miles	13
Richwood	11.3 miles	13
Surfside Beach	11.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381110. 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.