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Alief, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77072. The Survey maps it on the Alief quadrangle.

Alief within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

50 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Alief between 2002 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE010
27 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW PENNINGTON
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE010, E073
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE075
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE075
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE075

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alief in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 9 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2003Tornado (F2)Alief$500,000Tornado touched down in the Meadows subdivision in Fort Bend County and traveled into Harris County. Tornado moved over the intersection of West Bellfort and Kirkwood. Numerous apartments lost roofs in the extensive SW Village Apartment Complex damage.
May 1999HailAlief$30,000Quarter-sized hail reported at intersection of Fondren and Richmond.
March 2000HailAlief$25,000Quarter sized hail at Hwy. 6 and Beechnut in southwest Houston.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlief$20,000Large tree split in half and hit a home in Mission Bend.
March 2000HailAlief$15,000Dime sized hail at Dairy Ashford and Bissonnet in southwest Houston.Several large supercells formed along a strong cold front bringing 2 tornadoes and several reports of large hail to the northwest counties in southeast Texas on the evening of the 10th. Burleson County was the hardest hit with a tornado that cut a 21 mile swath through the center of the county and produced damage up to F3 status, with over 20 homes damaged or destroyed. Several reports of baseball-sized hail were also received from the county, including reports of damage to cars and homes in Caldwell. Hail damage to cars was also reported on the south side of Lake Conroe. Other reports of hail up to golfball size were common. The storms evolved into a broken squall line and gradually weakened as they moved into the coastal counties.
May 2000HailAlief$15,000Dime sized hail at SH 6 and Beechnut.
May 1999HailAlief$15,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindAlief$10,000Trees blown down in the Mission Glen Subdivision.
March 2002HailAlief$10,000no account filed
August 2003HailAlief$2,000Location was at US 59 and the Hardy Toll Road.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindAlief$1,000A 25-foot tree blown down in Alief.
May 2007HailAlief-Hail reported at the intersection of Kirkwood and Briar Forest Drives.
May 2007HailAlief-Hail reported at the intersection of Dairy Ashford Road and Westpark Drive.

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
Leewood West0.7 miles14
Oak Harbor0.8 miles14
Rodeo Square0.9 miles14
Pheasant Run1.0 miles14
Two Worlds1.2 miles14
Catalina Village1.4 miles14
Brays Village East1.5 miles14
Ashford Village1.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1329364. 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.