Whaley Corner, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rosenberg-Richmond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77469. The Survey maps it on the Smithers Lake quadrangle.

Whaley Corner within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Lake George quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Smithers Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Whaley Corner between 2005 and 2019, burning about 90 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
22 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
12 February 2011	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 February 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GUBBELS ROAD
26 December 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 December 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Whaley Corner: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jefferson Lake Sulphur	Sulfur	Producer
	Long Point Dome	Sulfur	Past Producer	1924, 1930

Every working recorded in Fort Bend 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Long Point	4.9 miles	10
Fairchilds	5.7 miles	10
Thompsons	5.9 miles	10
Booth	5.9 miles	11
Bridlewood Estates	6.1 miles	11
Rabbs Hill	6.5 miles	11
Crabb	6.6 miles	11
Greatwood	7.5 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q122541641

The 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 1379261. 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.