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Glenbrook Valley, Texas

16 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 77061. The Survey maps it on the Park Place quadrangle.

Glenbrook Valley within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

58 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Glenbrook Valley between 2011 and 2020, burning about 94 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/undetermined58

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 ServiceA036, E061
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE035, E055
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE061
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE046
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Glenbrook Valley: 13 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
Pasadena PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
South Houston Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934
(Facility) Atlantic Richfield RefinerySulfurPlant
Charter International Oil CoSulfurProducer
Fellow Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Galena Park Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Ideal Cement Clay PitClayProducer
Lone Star Clay PitClayProducer
U S Gypsum Calcining PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

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
Gulf Freeway Oaks0.8 miles16
Saint Rosa1.0 miles16
Oakland Plaza1.3 miles16
Greenway Place1.5 miles16
South Houston Gardens1.5 miles16
Park Place1.7 miles16
Golfcrest1.8 miles16
Allen Farms2.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471979. 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.