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Houston, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Live Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32060. The Survey maps it on the Live Oak East quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

Houston within Suwannee County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Houston, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Houston, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Houston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,204 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 7 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 burning71
Railroad operations and maintenance54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural15
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHREE (61)
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service122ND (61)
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service06-12-136 FIRE-0885
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service74TH TRACE (61)
24 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suwannee County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houston in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHouston$2,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHouston-A tree was blown down onto a home east of Live Oak. Trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHouston-A tree was blown down near the I-10 overpass on Hogan Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHouston-A tree was blown down and blocking the lane on U.S. Highway 90 eastbound between Live Oak and Lake City. The time was based on radar.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindHouston-Six to eight large trees blown down off of Interstate 10 near mile marker 288.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Houston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suwannee 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
Padlock3.8 miles9
Wellborn4.7 miles7
Live Oak5.1 miles8
Slade5.7 miles8
Pouchers Corner5.9 miles9
Pine Mount7.0 miles9
Rixford7.4 miles8
McAlpin8.5 miles9

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 Q44076913The 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 295361. 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.