Houston, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Texas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. The Survey maps it on the Glenn quadrangle.

Houston within Heard County

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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Glenn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Houston between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,223 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HEARD001
10 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HEARD-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard 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
Aubrey	2.7 miles	11
Kirk	2.7 miles	11
Denver	2.9 miles	11
Owensbyville	3.3 miles	12
Glenn	3.5 miles	11
O'Neals Crossroad	5.1 miles	11
Capstan (historical)	5.5 miles	12
Texas	6.5 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.

Wikipedia article on Houston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5916309	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 326331. 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.