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Charterwood, Texas

17 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 77070. It lies near Pillot Gully. The Survey maps it on the Tomball quadrangle.

Charterwood within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Charterwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
1 August 2015Debris and open burning6.4 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4514
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB066, E066, E096
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE096
8 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE004
28 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service407 FIRE
16 May 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 400
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE096
17 April 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 279

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Louetta0.6 miles17
Kohrville0.9 miles17
Canterbury Forest0.9 miles16
Western Estates1.6 miles16
Lakewood West1.7 miles16
Norchester2.1 miles16
Westbourne2.6 miles17
Shannon Forest2.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122569714The 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 2471757. 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.