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Bellaire Junction, Texas

11 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 77027. The Survey maps it on the Bellaire quadrangle.

Bellaire Junction within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

61 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Bellaire Junction between 2019 and 2020, burning about 8 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/undetermined60
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceD6,D8,E7,E8,E9,E16,E17,L6,L7,L16,M19,SF30
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceD028, E007, E016, L007, M006, SF024
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE007
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE016
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE006
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE038
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE048
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bellaire Junction: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Vermiculite, Sulfur. 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
Signal Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Vermiculite Products PlantVermiculiteProducer
Chromalloy American CorpBarium-BariteProducer
Echo Ii Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant No. 2Barium-BariteProducer
Walkers Sand IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
West University Place1.0 miles11
Lamar Terrace1.1 miles11
Southside Place1.6 miles11
Bellaire1.6 miles11
Southampton Place2.2 miles11
Braeswood2.5 miles11
Briargrove2.6 miles11
Linkwood2.7 miles11

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 Q122564504The 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 1377984. 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.