Forest Acres, Texas

16 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 77050. It stands on Garners Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Harmaston quadrangle.

Forest Acres within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1916 USGS Harmaston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1920 USGS Harmaston quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1944 USGS Harmaston quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harmaston quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Harmaston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Harmaston quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Harmaston quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Forest Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 774 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 873
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 864
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E032
26 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	108 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 38
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E056
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.1 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	B032, B035, E032, E035, E043

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 Forest Acres: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
	Cordell Pit & Plant	Clay	Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dyersdale	1.2 miles	17
Shadowlake Estates	1.2 miles	17
Kings Lake Forest	1.4 miles	16
Greensbrook	1.5 miles	16
Oak Knoll Estates	2.1 miles	17
Victor	2.3 miles	16
Riverwood Estates	2.5 miles	17
Audubon Park	2.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471942. 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.