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Ventura, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Magnolia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77354. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia East quadrangle.

Ventura within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Ventura between 1992 and 2016, burning about 792 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 96
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 190
30 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ventura in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018LightningVentura$5,000A lightning strike caused a fire at a home.
April 2020HailVentura-Quarter sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Pinehurst1.8 miles11
Mostyn3.0 miles11
Decker Prairie4.2 miles11
Stagecoach4.3 miles11
Oklahoma4.3 miles13
Magnolia5.0 miles12
Karen5.0 miles12
Egypt5.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379210. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.