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Houston, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Addison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35572. It stands on Brindley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Houston quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Houston within Winston County

On record in Houston

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

7 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Houston between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,478 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 101 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
Arson/incendiarism101
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaCHAMPION
4 September 2018Debris and open burning31 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180904-2
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaRUSTY BANKS
26 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaBRUSHY CREEK #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houston in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindHouston$5,000Several trees were blown down in the central part of the county.
December 2000HailHouston$3,000Golf ball size hail was observed in the Houston and Addison areas.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHouston-Trees were downed in the Houston area.
May 2003HailHouston-Pea to nickel size hail fell in and around the Houston area.
May 2002HailHouston-Dime size hail was reported near Houston.
March 2018HailHouston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winston 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
Barnett Chapel2.6 miles11
Lakeshore3.0 miles11
Sachs Bottoms (historical)3.3 miles11
Robinson Bottoms (historical)3.6 miles11
Corinth (historical)3.9 miles11
Eagle4.0 miles13
Arley4.9 miles11
Fairview5.3 miles11

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 HoustonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5916300The 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 159817. 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.