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El Dorado, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77013. The Survey maps it on the Settegast quadrangle.

El Dorado within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

97 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of El Dorado between 1996 and 2020, burning about 192 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning41
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE032
26 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB032, B035, E032, E035, E043
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARS747, ARS748, E043
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of El Dorado: 13 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Barium-Barite, Strontium, Bentonite, Barium-Barite. 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
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Champion PaperCalciumProducer
Houston Barite,PlantStrontium, Bentonite, Barium-BariteProducer
Houston Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Parker Bros.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
U S Gypsum Calcining PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Clay Pit and PlantClayUnknown
Ideal Cement Clay PitClayProducer

Every working 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
Oates Prairie0.8 miles14
Wynnewood Acres1.2 miles14
Songwood1.6 miles14
Wallsville Gardens1.6 miles14
East Houston2.3 miles17
Market at Hunting Bayou2.4 miles14
Jacinto City2.4 miles14
Knollwood Estates2.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471920. 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.