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Wallisville, 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 77597. The Survey maps it on the Anahuac quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Wallisville 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wallisville between 1996 and 2014, burning about 381 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 2010Naturalunder an acreAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF OFFICE CHIP PILE
4 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 600
18 June 2010Debris and open burning190 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 226
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.3 acresAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF TCP OFFICE
2 March 2009Arson/incendiarism65 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 65
18 March 1996Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 October 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wallisville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lost Lake Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1925

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallisville in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
November 2003Tornado (F1)Wallisville5 hurt, $100,000Tornado crossed the Old Trinity River Bridge on I-10, blowing over 10 semi trucks. One eastbound semi was dumped onto two cars. Another westbound semi was picked up, blown across a stone retaining wall, ripped through metal fencing and landed on a car in the westbound lane. Description of trucks were one loaded with 60K pounds of nuts and bolts, another with 42K pounds of paper towels, and a tanker truck filled with spring water. 5 injured transported to local area hospital.
April 2000HailWallisville$15,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWallisville$3,000Trees blown down on Glenwood Rd.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWallisville$2,750There were trees and power lines downed in Wallisville.
April 2009Flash FloodWallisville$1,000Heavy rainfall due to slow moving thunderstorms produced brief road closures along Interstate 10, with four feet of water reported over the road at the intersection of Highway 61 and the interstate.
April 2015HailWallisville-Quarter sized hail was reported to the east northeast of Cove.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Eminence2.7 miles12
Cove3.3 miles12
Turtle Bayou4.0 miles12
Old River-Winfree5.3 miles12
Anahuac5.3 miles12
Hankamer6.3 miles12
Mont Belvieu7.9 miles15
Monroe City9.0 miles10

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 WallisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7963154The 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 1379227. 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.

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.