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Booth, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Rosenberg-Richmond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77469. It stands on Gapps Slough. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Land quadrangle. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Booth within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Booth between 2011 and 2019, burning about 92 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
2 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
6 June 2011Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 June 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service715 SECR 1190
7 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUBBELS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Booth: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. 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
Sugarland Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1926
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Booth in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2021LightningBooth$50,000A home in Fort Bend County caught fire after being struck by lightning.
May 2019Flash FloodBooth$50,000All major roadways were impassable due to flooding in Sugar Land.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindBooth-A large tree, measuring at least 2 feet in diameter, was downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts in the Greatwood area.

Every storm recorded in Fort Bend 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
Rabbs Hill2.1 miles11
Greatwood2.2 miles11
Greatwood Trails2.3 miles11
Oxford2.9 miles11
Greatwood Village3.0 miles11
Bridlewood Estates3.0 miles11
Crabb3.2 miles11
First Colony3.8 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.

Wikipedia article on BoothAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4943864The 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 1378032. 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.