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Sabine Pass, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sabine Pass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77655. The Survey maps it on the Sabine Pass quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Sabine Pass within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Sabine Pass between 1993 and 2019, burning about 38,377 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
5 September 2010Debris and open burning275 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeSABINE WOODS
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeWF BROKEN BACKRIDGE
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugePICKARD
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeNO TEXAS POINT
11 September 2006Natural526 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeWF TEXAS POINT
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeNO SABINE PASS RD
3 August 2005Natural660 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeWF WEST UNIT 1
3 August 2005Natural578 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeWF NORTH EAST UNIT 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabine Pass in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2001Thunderstorm WindSabine Pass$5,000no account filed
September 2014Funnel CloudSabine Pass-The Coast Guard station a Sabine Pass reported a funnel cloud around one mile north of the station.
August 2003WildfireSabine Pass-no account filed
April 2003HailSabine Pass-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Sabine1.5 miles17
West Port Arthur9.2 miles16
Port Arthur11.5 miles16
Lakeview12.4 miles16
Griffing Park12.8 miles16
Pear Ridge13.1 miles16
Port Acres13.7 miles12
Groves14.9 miles16

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 Sabine PassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7396175The 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 1345804. 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.