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Catalina Village, Texas

14 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 77083. The Survey maps it on the Alief quadrangle.

Catalina Village within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

47 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Catalina Village between 2011 and 2020, burning about 1,665 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6000 FOREST
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,622 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGEORGE BUSH PARK
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE010
27 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW PENNINGTON
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE010, E073
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE075

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Catalina Village: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Clodine PitClayProducer

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
Beechnut Crossing0.5 miles14
Pheasant Run0.5 miles14
Rodeo Square0.7 miles14
Oak Harbor0.9 miles14
Two Worlds1.0 miles14
Leewood West1.0 miles14
Alief1.4 miles14
Mission Bend1.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471745. 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.