Virginia Point, Texas

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Galveston Causewaylisted 1976 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1929 USGS Virginia Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1932 USGS Virginia Point quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Virginia Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1943 USGS Virginia Point quadrangle1:25000
• 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Virginia Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Virginia Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1995 USGS Virginia Point quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Virginia Point between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,102 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.

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:

• Tiki Island
• Anderson Ways
• Bayou Vista
• Texas City Junction
• Heights
• Nadeau

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Virginia Point: 3 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite, Sulfur. 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 Galveston County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1370667. 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.