Brook Glen, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77571. It stands on Willow Springs Bayou. The Survey maps it on the La Porte quadrangle.

Brook Glen within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

1916 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1916 USGS Laporte quadrangle1:24000
1920 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1944 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Brook Glen between 2014 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/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
14 August 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID
19 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	B093 , E071, E072
4 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	C15-13570

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brook Glen: 9 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite, Perlite, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Deepwater Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Deer Park Sulfur Plant	Sulfur, Chlorine	Producer
Filter Media Inc	Perlite, Vermiculite	Producer
Laporte Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Judson Road Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kaiser Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hills No. 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Spenwick Place	1.0 miles	16
Village Grove	2.3 miles	13
Lomax	2.7 miles	16
Golden Acres	2.7 miles	13
Huntington	3.0 miles	13
Greendale	3.1 miles	16
Monument Estates	3.1 miles	16
Battlegrounds Vista	3.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471721. 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.