First Colony, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Sugar Land census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77479. It stands on Bullhead Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Missouri City quadrangle.

First Colony within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Sugar Land quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Missouri City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Missouri City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of First Colony between 2011 and 2015, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
9 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	309 CR. 4360
3 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIRE
2 August 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
7 February 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 January 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1270 HWY 188

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of First Colony: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Sugarland Salt Dome	Halite	Occurrence	1926
Pugmill #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
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
Oxford	1.1 miles	11
Herbert	1.3 miles	11
Smada	1.6 miles	11
Paynes	1.8 miles	11
Thunderbird West	2.8 miles	11
Hall Lake	3.0 miles	11
Dewalt	3.0 miles	11
Venetian Estates Section 2	3.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867549. 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.