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Cedar Bayou, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Baytown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77521. It stands on Cary Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Mont Belvieu quadrangle.

Cedar Bayou within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Bayou between 1997 and 2015, burning about 92 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 September 2006Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 290
18 April 2006Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 219
6 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2004Naturalunder an acreTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeNO TXP PARKING LOT
12 February 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 December 1997Debris and open burning15 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeJOESHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Bayou: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Clay, Halite, Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
(Facility) Exxon Baytown RefinerySulfurPlant
Barbers Hill MineHalite, Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1908, 1955
Gulf Coast Portland Cement CoClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Bayou in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2006Tornado (F0)Cedar Bayou$28,000Tornado downed trees and flipped over a horse trailer.
March 2017Tornado (EF0)Cedar Bayou$15,000Damage in and around a residence near the intersection of East Osage Road and East Shawnee included a mobile home moved, shingles removed on a home, a large tree limb (unknown origin) down in the yard and a large mattress lofted across the property.
April 2024Flash FloodCedar Bayou-Flash flooding was reported near the intersection of TX-146 and Alexander Dr in Baytown.
April 2015HailCedar Bayou-Quarter size hail was reported near Highway 146 and Interstate 10.

Every storm 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
Chaparral Village0.7 miles15
Allenbrook1.8 miles15
Country Club Gardens2.4 miles15
Country Club Estates2.4 miles15
Country Club Cove2.5 miles15
Country Club Oaks2.8 miles15
Quail Hollow2.9 miles15
Roseland Manor2.9 miles17

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 Cedar BayouAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5056573The 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 2034871. 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.