Duke, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Stafford-Missouri City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77583. It stands on Long Point Creek. The Survey maps it on the Almeda quadrangle. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Duke within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1920 USGS Almeda quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Almeda quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Almeda quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Almeda quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Duke between 2005 and 2015, burning about 436 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
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMBRIDGE
18 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 August 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURN PILE/ TREES, LIMBS,ETC
11 August 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
1 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	431 SUNSET COLONY
1 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 June 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 June 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend 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 Duke: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Bromine. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Blue Ridge Mine	Halite, Bromine	Producer	1903
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Arcola	1.2 miles	11
Arcola Junction	1.3 miles	13
Sienna Plantation	1.7 miles	10
Hawdon	1.9 miles	11
Palmetto	2.4 miles	13
Fresno	3.1 miles	13
Trammels	3.4 miles	11
Juliff	3.8 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Duke	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16992113	The 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 1378234. 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.