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Decker Prairie, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Magnolia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77362. It stands on Cow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia East quadrangle.

Decker Prairie within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Decker Prairie between 1992 and 2016, burning about 679 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
8 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 190
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Decker Prairie: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Perlite. 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
Perlite of Houston PlantPerliteProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Decker Prairie in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 4 flash flood. 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
October 2006Flash FloodDecker Prairie$95,000Decker Oaks Subdivision flooding with units being evacuated.
October 2006Flash FloodDecker Prairie$50,000Water rescues at FM 249 and Hardin Store Road.
July 2012Flash FloodDecker Prairie$3,000Wright Road impassable near Noack Road due to flooding.
July 2012Flash FloodDecker Prairie-Route 249 at Hardin Store Road impassable due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Pinehurst3.2 miles11
Stagecoach3.4 miles11
Oklahoma3.5 miles13
Ventura4.2 miles11
Mostyn7.0 miles11
Magnolia7.5 miles12
Egypt7.9 miles13
The Woodlands8.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1334182. 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.