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Regal Oaks, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Alvin-Pearland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77581. The Survey maps it on the Friendswood quadrangle.

Regal Oaks within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

46 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Regal Oaks between 2007 and 2020, burning about 262 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning12
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA036, E061
14 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052, E093
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE061
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013018
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093, L093

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Regal Oaks: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fellow Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shelton Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Shadycrest0.5 miles13
Parkview0.6 miles13
Pineshadows0.7 miles18
Rustic Oaks0.8 miles18
Woodcreek0.8 miles18
Oakbrook Estates0.9 miles13
Sleepy Hollow1.0 miles18
Banbury Cross1.1 miles13

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 Q122539211The 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 2471840. 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.