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.
Then and now
1954 to 1981The 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 sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Live Oak East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
235 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 71 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 54 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | THREE (61) |
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 122ND (61) |
| 5 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 06-12-136 FIRE-0885 |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 74TH TRACE (61) |
| 24 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | $2,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | A tree was blown down onto a home east of Live Oak. Trees and power lines were blown down across the county. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | A tree was blown down near the I-10 overpass on Hogan Road. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houston | - | Six to eight large trees blown down off of Interstate 10 near mile marker 288. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Houston | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Padlock | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Wellborn | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Live Oak | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Slade | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Pouchers Corner | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pine Mount | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Rixford | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| McAlpin | 8.5 miles | 9 |
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 Houston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q44076913 | 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 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.




