Gloverdale, Texas

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.

• 1915 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1922 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Gloverdale between 2019 and 2020, burning about 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Central Park
• Daly Place
• Forest Hill
• Golfcrest
• Harrisburg
• Idylwood

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Gloverdale: 17 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 18 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.

Every working recorded in Harris County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471984. 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.