Greenbranch, 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 77032. The Survey maps it on the Aldine quadrangle.

Greenbranch within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1916 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1919 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Greenbranch between 1993 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	B032, E032, E084
11 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	49 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 894
4 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E058
20 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 743
18 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E064
8 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E084
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E084

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Greenbriar Colony	0.7 miles	17
Aldine Meadows	0.8 miles	17
Central Green	0.9 miles	17
Aldine	1.0 miles	18
Greenview Manor	1.3 miles	17
Glen Forest	1.8 miles	18
Southbrook	1.9 miles	18
Aldine Place	1.9 miles	17

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 Q122555149

The 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 2471993. 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.