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Quintana, 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. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Quintana within Brazoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Quintana fell from 56 to 26 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201056
202026-30 (-54%)

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

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Quintana between 2000 and 2015, burning about 219 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
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
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: 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

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quintana in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2006LightningQuintana2 hurtTwo victims (a 13 year old female and a 23 year old female) sought shelter under a cabana on Surfside Beach when lightning struck. The younger victim was initially in critical condition when airlifted to the hospital but fully recovered after a four day stay with only scars around her neck from a necklace she was wearing when struck. The older victim had bleeding ears after the strike, but was treated and released the same day.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindQuintana$12,000Power lines down near FM 332.
May 2001Funnel CloudQuintana-no account filed

Every storm 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
Quintana Beach0.8 miles12
Surfside0.9 miles12
Brazosport1.0 miles12
Surfside Beach1.3 miles12
Midway2.1 miles12
Freeport3.1 miles12
Velasco3.4 miles12
Velasco Heights4.8 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 QuintanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982356The 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 1380409. 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.

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.