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Glen Park, Texas

17 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 77009. It stands on Little Whiteoak Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Settegast quadrangle.

Glen Park within Harris County

On record in Glen Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

96 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Glen Park between 2019 and 2020, burning about 14 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/undetermined96

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceD6,D8,E7,E8,E9,E16,E17,L6,L7,L16,M19,SF30
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE017
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceD6,D19,E12,E15,E19,E30,L6,L19,M19,SF30
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE017
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE007
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE006
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE030

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Glen Park: 9 producers, 2 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Vermiculite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Echo Ii Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gulf Coast Clay PitClayProducer
Gulf Coast PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Houston Barite,PlantStrontium, Bentonite, Barium-BariteProducer
Houston Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Houston Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Southern Clay Products IncBentoniteProducer
Vermiculite Products PlantVermiculiteProducer
Chromalloy American CorpBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer

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
Brook Smith1.2 miles15
Woodland Heights1.4 miles15
Houston1.8 miles17
Stude1.8 miles15
Stone Heights2.3 miles15
Houston Heights2.4 miles15
Colonial Gardens2.6 miles17
Shady Acres3.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471978. 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.