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Violet, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78380. The Survey maps it on the Annaville quadrangle.

Violet within Nueces County

On record in Violet

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Violet between 2006 and 2016, burning about 217 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGLOIN FIRE
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO RD 44 & 1694
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE HWY 44 & CO RD 67
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIOLET FIRE
16 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service600 BLK E AVE A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Violet in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindViolet$10,000Radio transmitter tower knocked down near Robstown.
July 2021Flash FloodViolet-Highway closures occurred due to high water along Highway 77 from Robstown to Calallen and along Interstate 37 from Calallen to Annaville.
September 2018FloodViolet-Public reported minor flooding on Avenue J in Robstown from Picker Lane to past Bosquez Street near Robstown High School.

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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
Clarkwood2.9 miles13
San Juan3.2 miles13
McNorton3.6 miles13
Annaville3.8 miles13
Arlington Heights3.9 miles13
Robstown3.9 miles13
San Pedro4.4 miles13
North San Pedro4.8 miles13

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 VioletAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7933194The 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 1349302. 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.