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Barrett, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Northeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77532. The Survey maps it on the Crosby quadrangle. 5,223 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Barrett within Harris County

Population over time

2 figures

Barrett grew from 3,199 to 5,223 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
20103,199
20205,223+2,024 (+63%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Barrett between 1996 and 2011, burning about 123 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 831
6 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH-CENTRAL-793
21 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 222
13 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 February 1996Debris and open burning85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 October 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 452
7 January 2006Railroad operations and maintenance17 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Barrett: 9 producers, 2 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Wallisvill Road Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
Highlands Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mantooth Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pendley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rightway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Rightway Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
San Jacinto Excavation CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sheldon Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Swilley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Swilley Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barrett in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 hail. 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
May 2016HailBarrett-Penny size hail was reported off the Crosby Freeway (Highway 90).

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
Fontain0.2 miles15
Crosby2.2 miles15
Magnolia Gardens2.7 miles15
Sheldon3.6 miles14
Highlands4.2 miles17
Sheldon Acres4.4 miles14
Sheldon Park4.7 miles14
Crosby Meadows5.2 miles15

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 BarrettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975939The 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 1372401. 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.