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Chaparral Village, 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. The Survey maps it on the Mont Belvieu quadrangle.

Chaparral Village 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Chaparral Village between 1997 and 2015, burning about 88 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
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
26 December 1997Debris and open burning15 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeJOESHOUSE
15 November 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chaparral Village: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. 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
Barbers Hill MineHalite, Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1908, 1955
Gulf Coast Portland Cement CoClayPast Producer
(Facility) Exxon Baytown RefinerySulfurPlant
Baytown Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

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
Cedar Bayou0.7 miles15
Allenbrook1.2 miles15
Country Club Gardens1.9 miles15
Country Club Estates1.9 miles15
Country Club Cove2.1 miles15
Country Club Oaks2.3 miles15
Roseland Manor2.4 miles17
Quail Hollow2.5 miles15

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 Q122557938The 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 2471755. 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.