Second Corinth, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hempstead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. The Survey maps it on the Howth quadrangle. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Second Corinth within Waller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Howth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Second Corinth between 1996 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRAZOS RIVER LANE
27 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
22 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
15 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TREE
27 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRAZOS RIVER LANE
23 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11350 USHIGHWAY 290 E
15 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
14 July 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller 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
Rock Island	2.1 miles	8
Saint Paul	2.5 miles	8
Howth	3.3 miles	8
Hempstead	3.8 miles	10
Cedar Creek	4.7 miles	8
Lewisville	5.1 miles	10
Rolling Hills	5.4 miles	8
Pine Island	7.3 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 Second Corinth	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7443225	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 1379048. 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.