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Quintana Beach, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1974. It stands in the Brazosport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77541. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle.

Quintana Beach within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

30 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Quintana Beach between 2007 and 2015, burning about 122 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTER POINT
12 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePORT FREEPORT
6 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVELASCO
11 August 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service332/690
5 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINTERCOASTAL WATERWAY
4 July 2013Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAZOS RIVER AT BAYWOOD
31 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAZOS PIPE
3 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBrazoria National Wildlife RefugePARKER POINT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Quintana Beach: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sulfur, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bryan Mound MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1904, 1912, 1968
Dow Chemical PlantMagnesiteProducer
Dow Freeport Plants A and BMagnesitePlant1941

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Quintana0.8 miles12
Brazosport1.7 miles12
Surfside1.7 miles12
Surfside Beach2.1 miles12
Midway2.4 miles12
Freeport3.1 miles12
Velasco3.5 miles12
Bryan Beach4.3 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122592598The 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 1365908. 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.