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Glen Cairn West, Texas

17 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 77084. The Survey maps it on the Addicks quadrangle.

Glen Cairn West within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Glen Cairn West between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,979 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning3

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE090
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernard National Wildlife RefugeROADSIDE
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined215 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 814
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE090 L090
7 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service924 ROLLING RIDGE ROAD
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE090
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE090
23 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceADDICKS RANGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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 Glen Cairn West: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
A.F. Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fellows Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Satsuma IiSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glen Cairn0.5 miles17
West Glen0.7 miles17
Glencairn Park0.8 miles17
Bear Creek Village0.8 miles17
Pine Forest Village0.9 miles17
Windsong1.3 miles17
Concord Colony1.4 miles17
Deerfield Village1.5 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122558093The 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 2471974. 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.