Galilee, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77320. The Survey maps it on the Galilee quadrangle.

Galilee within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Galilee quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Galilee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,290 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WALKER 15:55
4 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 844
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 415
17 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 405
5 August 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 August 1998	Natural	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 August 1997	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Galilee: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
	Unknown	Silica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Crabbs Prairie	4.0 miles	11
Pine Hill	4.2 miles	14
Huntsville	5.1 miles	14
San Jacinto	6.7 miles	14
Goshen	6.7 miles	14
Bath	7.1 miles	13
Pine Prairie	7.5 miles	13
Wesley Grove	8.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379820. 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.