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Forest Heights, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mauriceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77632. The Survey maps it on the Mauriceville quadrangle. 1,329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Forest Heights within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Forest Heights between 1992 and 2016, burning about 2,020 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 35 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 burning48
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 224
5 September 2013Fireworks97 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9171
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 853
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 963
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 254
22 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 255

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 Heights: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
G.T.M. Sand PitSilicaProducer
Teal PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerSand

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Reese2.6 miles13
Morgan Bluff2.8 miles18
Kinard Estates4.7 miles13
Lemonville4.9 miles13
Ridgecrest5.0 miles18
Little Cypress5.1 miles13
West Bluff5.1 miles18
Echo6.1 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Forest HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5468899The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1336021. 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.