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Fairbanks, 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 77040. The Survey maps it on the Hedwig Village quadrangle.

Fairbanks 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

37 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Fairbanks between 2011 and 2020, burning about 35 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/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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 ServiceE004
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013, E067
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernard National Wildlife RefugeROADSIDE
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA5,D4,D5,E5,E50,E66,E77,L4,L38,M62,SF57
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 688
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA77, D005, E066, E077, HM1022, SF030
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE067

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairbanks in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFairbanks$30,000Loose gravel roofing material was blown from the top of a building into a parking lot causing extensive window damage to numerous vehicles at the Harris County Appraisal District office.
July 2014Flash FloodFairbanks$5,000Heavy rain caused several streets to flood in and around the Spring Branch area.
May 2016HailFairbanks$3,000Quarter size hail was observed near Jersey Village.
October 2008HailFairbanks$1,000Penny size hail occurred at the intersection of Highway 290 and Fairbanks North Houston Road.
May 2019HailFairbanks-There were numerous reports of quarter to golf ball sized hail around the west and northwest sides of the Houston area.
March 2017HailFairbanks-Dime to penny sized hail was reported near the intersection of Highway 290 and Fairbanks North Houston Road.
May 2016HailFairbanks-Penny size hail was observed.
April 2015HailFairbanks-Dime to quarter sized hail reported near the intersection of Beltway 8 and Clay Road.

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
Dow Acres0.5 miles16
Northwest Crossing0.8 miles16
Carver Dale1.0 miles16
Lois1.7 miles16
Spring Branch Acres1.8 miles16
Creekside Estates South1.9 miles16
Candlelight Forest West2.0 miles15
Westways2.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1373692. 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.

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.