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Texas City Junction, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77590. The Survey maps it on the Virginia Point quadrangle.

Texas City Junction within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

23 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Texas City Junction between 2011 and 2020, burning about 76 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 burning11
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3042 CEDAR
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR DR #2
2 September 2011Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 519
16 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service412 AVE D
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2605 CORBETT
1 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR DR
16 August 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH RIDGECREST FIRE
9 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7100 GULF STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Texas City Junction: 6 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite. 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
(Facility) Amoco Texas RefinerySulfurPlant
Bay Materials CoClay, SilicaProducer
Gulf Chemical and Metallureical CoVanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, MagnesiteProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Sand
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary
Baulch Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hester Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerClay, Sand

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bayou Vista1.6 miles15
Texas City Terminal Junction1.9 miles15
La Marque2.1 miles15
Nadeau2.4 miles15
Heights2.7 miles15
Texas City3.1 miles15
Virginia Point3.8 miles15
Tiki Island3.8 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122594034The 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 1380649. 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.