Cypress Point, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77429. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cypress quadrangle.

Cypress Point within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1915 USGS Cypress quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1918 USGS Cypress quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Cypress quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Cypress quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Point between 2006 and 2011, burning about 104 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 June 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.0 acres	Livingston Area	PLEASANT GROVE FIRE
6 January 2006	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cypress	1.6 miles	16
Hot Wells	1.9 miles	16
Enchanted Valley	2.2 miles	16
Inwood Park	3.2 miles	16
Sabacen Park	3.3 miles	16
Ravensway South	3.4 miles	16
Ravensway	3.5 miles	16
Cypress Creek Estates	3.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471899. 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.