Stingaree, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bolivar Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77650. It lies near Goat Island. The Survey maps it on the Flake quadrangle.

Stingaree within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1931 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
1933 USGS Flake quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1943 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Flake quadrangle1:25000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Flake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Stingaree between 2008 and 2010, burning about 50 acres in total. None 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	2

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
19 May 2010	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND FIRE
17 March 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston 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
Patton Woods	0.3 miles	16
Crystal Beach	0.3 miles	16
Elmgrove	1.8 miles	16
Bolivar Peninsula	3.4 miles	14
Bolivar Beach	3.6 miles	16
Caplen	6.8 miles	14
Rollover	7.7 miles	13
Port Bolivar	8.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381108. 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.