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Aldine, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. The Survey maps it on the Aldine quadrangle. 15,999 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Aldine within Harris County

Population over time

2 figures

Aldine grew from 15,869 to 15,999 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201015,869
202015,999+130 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Aldine between 1993 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
4 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE058
20 August 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 743
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE064
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE058
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE084

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: 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

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aldine in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2004LightningAldine1 hurt17 year old male injured in front of Aldine High School. Victim was sitting on a bench next to a nearby tree that was struck by lightning.
November 2004Tornado (F1)Aldine$300,000Tornado traveled NE with damage reported from the High Meadows Subdivision to the intersection of Reality and Otterbury. MacArthur 9th grade school suffered significant damage with westward-facing second story wall collapsing inward, destroying a row of lockers. A 40x40 foot brick facade was ripped from the exterior wall with interior debris littering a nearby soccer field. Several collapsed garage awnings and downed large tree limbs in the High Meadows Subdivision. Two local auto supply stores had damage with their rooftop air conditioning units and satellite dishes blown off.
April 2000HailAldine$100,000Golfball sized hail at I-45 and West Rd.
May 2007Flash FloodAldine$75,000Numerous flooded vehicles. An estimated 100-plus vehicles trapped due to impassable Interstate 45 feeder road flooding. Flooded vehicles near Kirkwood Road and Briar Forest Drive. Streets were flooded and impassable along Aldine-Bender Road northbound.
June 1996LightningAldine$75,000no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindAldine$55,000Billboard signs down.
August 2000HailAldine$50,000Quarter sized hail reported at I-45 and FM 249.
April 2004HailAldine$40,000Golfball-size hail reported (Key Map 412)
May 2007Flash FloodAldine$15,000Flooded and impassable streets near Interstate 45 and Gulf Bank Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAldine$12,000There were trees downed on roads, power lines, and over an apartment complex.
May 2005Flash FloodAldine$10,000Flooding in the Aldine area.
June 2001HailAldine$10,000Dime size hail at Beltway 8 and The Hardy Toll Road.
May 1999HailAldine$10,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAldine$8,000A couple of trees down.
October 2008HailAldine$5,000Golf ball size hail occurred at the intersection of Beltway 8 North and the Hardy Toll Road.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAldine$5,00070 mph gust reported at I-45 & Beltway 8.
April 1997HailAldine$5,000no account filed
April 1997HailAldine$5,000no account filed
June 1996HailAldine$5,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAldine$5,000no account filed
May 2006HailAldine$4,000Penny size hail near West Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAldine$3,000Trees down near the intersection of FM 1960 and Atascosita.
November 2003Flash FloodAldine$3,000Flooding in and around Aldine
February 1999HailAldine$3,000no account filed
April 2007Funnel CloudAldine-Viewed on Houston Metro traffic cameras.

Every storm 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 Meadows0.3 miles17
Greenbranch1.0 miles18
Greenbriar Colony1.4 miles17
Imperial Valley1.4 miles18
Aldine Place1.5 miles17
Traweek Gardens1.6 miles18
Central Green1.9 miles17
Airline Terrace1.9 miles18

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 AldineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972657The 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 1350960. 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.

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.