Arbor Oaks, Texas

15 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 77088. It stands on Vogel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Houston Heights quadrangle.

Arbor Oaks within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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.

1915 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1922 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1946 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Arbor Oaks between 1997 and 2020, burning about 30 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E004
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E013, E067
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E067
10 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	A5,D4,D5,E5,E50,E66,E77,L4,L38,M62,SF57
4 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	A77, D005, E066, E077, HM1022, SF030
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E013
30 August 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oaks of Inwood	0.3 miles	15
Inwood Pines	0.5 miles	15
Inwood Forest	0.6 miles	18
Sheraton Oaks	0.6 miles	15
Bayou Bend	0.8 miles	15
Antoine Forest Estates	0.9 miles	15
Chateau Forest	1.2 miles	15
Candlelight	1.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472387. 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.