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Tiki Island, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the La Marque-Hitchcock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77554. It stands on Tiki Island. The Survey maps it on the Virginia Point quadrangle. 1,106 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Tiki Island within Galveston County

Population over time

2 figures

Tiki Island grew from 968 to 1,106 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010968
20201,106+138 (+14%)

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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Tiki Island between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,130 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 burning3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
11 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,100 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeTPTWISTER
9 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7100 GULF STREET
2 July 2013Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. RAILROAD
13 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARBORWALK FIRE
2 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3800 FM 1765 FIRE
21 March 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceK. JOHNSONVILLE FIRE
2 February 2013Smoking25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARBORWALK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tiki Island: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite, Clay, Silica. 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
Bay Materials CoClay, SilicaProducer
Gulf Chemical and Metallureical CoVanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, MagnesiteProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Sand
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary

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
Virginia Point1.2 miles15
Bayou Vista2.3 miles15
Anderson Ways2.6 miles15
Texas City Terminal Junction3.5 miles15
Texas City Junction3.8 miles15
Fort Crockett5.6 miles14
La Marque5.7 miles15
Texas City6.0 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.

Wikipedia article on Tiki IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2450004The 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 2413676. 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.