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Sea Breeze, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Winnie-Stowell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77665. The Survey maps it on the Whites Ranch quadrangle.

Sea Breeze within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Sea Breeze between 1995 and 2012, burning about 1,734 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism5

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeWF RANCH ROAD EAST
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeWF WHITE RANCH ROAD
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeWF SPINDLETOP BEND
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeWF CONTOUR LEVEE
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF 124 HAZE
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF LITTLE PASTURE
1 July 2008Debris and open burning2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2009Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 110

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sea Breeze in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 tornado. 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
July 2006Tornado (F0)Sea Breeze-Tornado caused no damage near the Intracoastal Bridge on Highway 124 near the Chambers-Galveston county line.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Figridge3.0 miles12
Stowell4.9 miles12
Winnie7.0 miles12
Monroe City12.0 miles10
Double Bayou13.6 miles10
Hankamer16.5 miles12
Anahuac16.7 miles12
Oak Island17.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379046. 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.