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Green Tree Terrace, Texas

18 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 77581. The Survey maps it on the Friendswood quadrangle.

Green Tree Terrace within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

48 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Green Tree Terrace between 2007 and 2020, burning about 264 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning6

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 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052, E093
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
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 ServiceE093
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093, L093
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB093 D070 E070 E093

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Tree Terrace: 2 producers. 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
Fellow Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shelton Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Sagemeadow0.7 miles18
Sageglen1.1 miles18
South Bend1.2 miles18
Sagemont1.4 miles18
Highland Meadows1.5 miles18
Woodmeadow1.8 miles18
Scarsdale2.3 miles18
Kirkwood2.3 miles18

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122549679The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471992. 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.