Addicks, Texas

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.

• 1915 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1918 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Addicks between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,930 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Briar Hills
• Meadow Walk
• Memorial Thicket
• Parkway Villages
• Ashford Forest
• Briar Forest

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Addicks in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Harris County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1329222. 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.