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Clear Lake, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77062. The Survey maps it on the Friendswood quadrangle.

Clear Lake within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

42 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Clear Lake between 2011 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
19 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
7 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0000523
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000473
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093, L093
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094

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 Clear Lake: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, 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
Seabrook Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clear Lake in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 tornado. 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
February 1993Tornado (F0)Clear Lake$500,000Four garages were destroyed. Roof damage to several homes and one apartment complex two blocks east of Bay Area Blvd and Diana Lane in Clear Lake.

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
Camino South0.3 miles18
Pipers Meadow0.6 miles18
Clear Lake City0.7 miles19
Webster1.2 miles19
Sterling Knoll1.3 miles18
University Green1.3 miles19
Baybrook Village1.6 miles18
Oak Brook West1.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471768. 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.