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Greens Bayou, Texas

14 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 77015. It lies near Jordan Gully. The Survey maps it on the Jacinto City quadrangle.

Greens Bayou within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Greens Bayou between 2006 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 878
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041, E042
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE044, L044
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE044, L044
31 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Greens Bayou: 21 producers, 3 plants, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Clay. 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
(Facility) Atlantic Richfield RefinerySulfurPlant
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Champion PaperCalciumProducer
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Barite,PlantStrontium, Bentonite, Barium-BariteProducer
Galena Park Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
U S Gypsum Calcining PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Houston Clay Pit and PlantClayUnknown
Ideal Cement Clay PitClayProducer
Lone Star Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greens Bayou in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Flash FloodGreens Bayou$1,750,000Heavy rainfall caused flooding of 40 homes in Harris County along Halls, Hunting, and Little White Oak bayous.

Every storm 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
Woodland Acres0.2 miles14
Market at Hunting Bayou1.3 miles14
Jacinto City1.5 miles14
Hidden Forest1.6 miles14
Riviera East1.9 miles14
Cloverleaf2.0 miles14
Wood Forest2.1 miles14
Songwood2.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1373918. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.