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East Haven, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77075. The Survey maps it on the Park Place quadrangle.

East Haven within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

45 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of East Haven between 2011 and 2020, burning about 161 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/undetermined45

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA036, E061
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052, E093
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE061
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA36D26D70E29E36E52E61FM22HM2022L29L61M70SF24

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 East Haven: 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
Fellow Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Houston Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Haven in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2018LightningEast Haven1 killedA roofer was installing metal paneling to a commercial building under construction. Lightning struck the employee, resulting in electrocution and blunt force head trauma based on OSHA report.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Haven$2,000,000There was significant damage to a hanger and surrounding aircraft at Houston Hobby Airport due to a microburst. Four aircraft inside the hanger and four aircraft outside of the hanger sustained damage. Hangar destroyed. Debris deposited toward the south and southeast.
September 2020Flash FloodEast Haven$100,000Cars submerged, high water rescues near Sam Houston Parkway and Telephone Road.
August 2019LightningEast Haven$25,000Lightning from thunderstorms moving across the area struck an apartment complex off of Almeda-Genoa Road. An attic fire quickly engulfed one of the units.
August 2013LightningEast Haven$6,000A lightning strike caused an attic fire at a residential home.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Haven-ASOS station KHOU Houston Hobby measured a 63 mph wind gust.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Haven-Wind gust occurred at KHOU.

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
Freeway Manor0.8 miles13
Sun Valley0.9 miles13
South Houston Gardens1.5 miles16
South Houston1.8 miles13
Skyscraper Shadows1.8 miles13
Gulf Freeway Oaks1.9 miles16
Allen Farms2.1 miles16
Arlington Heights2.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1334945. 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.