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Covington West, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Sugar Land census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77498. The Survey maps it on the Alief quadrangle.

Covington West within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

24 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Covington West between 2011 and 2020, burning about 89 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service309 CR. 4360
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
27 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW PENNINGTON
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE075
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE076

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Covington West: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Pugmill #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fort Bend 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
Ragus Lake Estates0.7 miles14
Town West1.2 miles14
Venetian Estates Section 21.8 miles11
Meadows Place1.8 miles14
Grove West1.9 miles14
Pheasant Creek2.0 miles14
Sugar Land2.0 miles11
Dover2.2 miles14

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 Q122593626The 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 2471889. 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.