Velasco Heights, Texas

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.

• 1943 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
• 1943 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1974 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Velasco Heights between 2008 and 2018, burning about 377 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lake Barbara
• Midway
• Velasco
• Brazosport
• Clute
• Freeport

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Velasco Heights: 5 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1370612. 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.