Sandy Point, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77583. The Survey maps it on the Juliff quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Sandy Point within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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 Juliff quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Juliff quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Juliff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Point between 2008 and 2014, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2827 PEARCE LANE
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 528 @ OLD COFFEE LAKE DRIVE
28 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	10507 CR 48
21 August 2011	Smoking	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	17102 FM 521
13 July 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 42 305
20 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 61 @ HWY 288
16 June 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	16400 BLOCK CR 569
9 May 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1511 CR 382

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Rosharon	2.6 miles	11
English	2.6 miles	11
Lochridge	3.5 miles	11
Bonney	5.1 miles	11
China Grove	5.2 miles	11
Iowa Colony	7.5 miles	11
Otey	7.7 miles	11
Manvel	8.4 miles	10

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 Sandy Point	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4919591	The 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 1346604. 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.