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Glenburnie, Texas

15 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 77022. The Survey maps it on the Houston Heights quadrangle.

Glenburnie within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

91 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Glenburnie between 2017 and 2020, burning about 20 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/undetermined90
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceD6,D19,E12,E15,E19,E30,L6,L19,M19,SF30
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013, E067
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE067
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
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE058
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013

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 Glenburnie: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Barium-Barite, Bentonite. 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
Chromalloy American CorpBarium-BariteProducer
Southern Clay Products IncBentoniteProducer
Vermiculite Products PlantVermiculiteProducer

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
Graceland Terrace0.3 miles15
Garden Oaks1.6 miles15
Pembroke Place1.7 miles17
Stone Heights1.8 miles15
Plymouth Place1.9 miles17
Colonial Gardens2.0 miles17
Hawthorne Place2.2 miles17
Melrose Gardens2.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471980. 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.