Turtle Bayou, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anahuac census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77514. It stands on Turtle Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Anahuac quadrangle.

Turtle Bayou within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1942 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Turtle Bayou between 1996 and 2014, burning about 894 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
30 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge	WF OFFICE CHIP PILE
4 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 600
18 June 2010	Debris and open burning	190 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 226
14 June 1996	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 May 2011	Debris and open burning	63 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 360
5 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.3 acres	Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge	WF TCP OFFICE
3 March 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 67
2 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 66

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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
Eminence	1.3 miles	12
Hankamer	3.0 miles	12
Anahuac	3.8 miles	12
Wallisville	4.0 miles	12
Monroe City	5.2 miles	10
Cove	7.2 miles	12
Old River-Winfree	9.2 miles	12
Double Bayou	9.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034881. 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.