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Greengate Place, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77373. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maedan quadrangle.

Greengate Place within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Greengate Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 535 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 855
28 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service27547 REBECCA FIELD
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use49 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 894
1 September 2011Arson/incendiarism11 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 820
30 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 815
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAPLE RAPIDS
21 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 310
12 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWISPWILLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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 Greengate Place: 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
Watson 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
Post Wood0.5 miles15
Sandpiper Village1.2 miles15
Sandpiper1.5 miles15
Birnham Wood1.6 miles15
Foxwood2.4 miles15
Northland Shopping Center2.5 miles18
Timber Lane2.9 miles18
Millcreek3.0 miles15

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 Q122599109The 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 2471999. 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.