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Sedgewood, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Alvin-Pearland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77578. It stands on North Fork Marys Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pearland quadrangle.

Sedgewood within Brazoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

80 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Sedgewood between 2008 and 2019, burning about 384 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
14 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE
13 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sedgewood: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
Manvell Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1929

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
Southwyck0.5 miles13
Fairway Village0.6 miles13
Lakepointe0.8 miles13
Meadowview1.3 miles13
West Lea1.6 miles13
Waterbury1.7 miles13
Ravenwood Estates1.9 miles13
Westchester Estates2.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471882. 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.