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Trammels, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Stafford-Missouri City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77459. The Survey maps it on the Missouri City quadrangle. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Trammels within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Trammels between 2006 and 2020, burning about 356 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
10 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
26 May 2006Misuse of fire by a minor303 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKE OLYMPIA
27 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
22 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceB080, E059, MPR080
7 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
2 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceB035, E035, E059

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Trammels: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Halite, Bromine. 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
Blue Ridge MineHalite, BromineProducer1903
Sugarland Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1926
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Fort Bend 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
Dewalt1.8 miles11
Quail Valley2.5 miles11
Thunderbird West2.8 miles11
Quail Valley East2.8 miles11
Duke3.4 miles13
Thompsons3.6 miles10
Sienna Plantation3.7 miles10
Quail Glen3.7 miles11

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 TrammelsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7833162The 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 1379172. 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.