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Chantilly Woods, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77090. It lies near Seals Gully. The Survey maps it on the Spring quadrangle.

Chantilly Woods within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Chantilly Woods between 1993 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 834
25 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 743
24 July 1995Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service440 FIRE
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE084
17 May 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service201115357

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chantilly Woods: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Forest Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Houston Plant BauxiteAluminumPast Producer

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
Cypresswood0.6 miles18
Ponderosa Forest0.8 miles18
Cypress Villas0.9 miles18
Bammel Forest1.0 miles18
Bammel Timbers1.1 miles18
Bammel1.2 miles18
Candlelight Hills1.7 miles18
Terranova1.7 miles18

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 Q122562148The 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 2471754. 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.