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Grady, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77328. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle.

Grady within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Grady between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,736 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were 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
Debris and open burning110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNA
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 392
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
22 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS & WOODS
20 September 2005Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grady: 1 producer. 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
Cleveland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Liberty 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
Cleveland0.9 miles12
Bendetsen1.2 miles12
Nimrod1.9 miles12
North Cleveland2.1 miles13
Grace3.2 miles12
Snuff Ridge3.3 miles12
Williams3.7 miles12
Seaman3.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381213. 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.