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Brookwood, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77059. It stands on Big Island Slough. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle.

Brookwood within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

29 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Brookwood between 2011 and 2020, burning about 24 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
19 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000473
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
19 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB093 , E071, E072
16 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000290

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brookwood: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Perlite. 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
Laporte Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934
Hills No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Seabrook Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
University Park0.6 miles19
Middlebrook0.7 miles19
North Fork1.9 miles18
Kilkare (historical)2.1 miles19
Bay Point2.3 miles18
University Green2.4 miles19
Oak Brook West2.4 miles18
Bay Glen2.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471727. 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.