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Aldine City, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77032. The Survey maps it on the Humble quadrangle.

Aldine City within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Aldine City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB032, E032, E084
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE056
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE058
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE064
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE084
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE064
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE074
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE064

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aldine City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Harris 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
Aldine Place0.5 miles17
Castlewoods0.9 miles17
Western Homes1.2 miles17
Sequoya Bend1.6 miles17
Aldine Meadows1.8 miles17
Parkwood Estates1.8 miles17
Fountain View1.9 miles17
Greenbriar Colony1.9 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122570128The 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 2472376. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.