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Bridlewood Estates, 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. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Land quadrangle.

Bridlewood Estates 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bridlewood Estates between 2006 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
2 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
15 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 June 2011Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service715 SECR 1190
13 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOEBLEN RD
12 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOEBLEN RD
18 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend 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 Bridlewood Estates: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Big Creek MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1922, 1925
Long Point DomeSulfurPast Producer1924, 1930
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working 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
Crabb0.5 miles11
Rabbs Hill1.2 miles11
Greatwood Village1.6 miles11
Greatwood Trails2.2 miles11
Greatwood2.3 miles11
Booth3.0 miles11
Richmond4.5 miles9
New Territory4.6 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 Q122594580The 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 2471719. 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.