Heights, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77590. The Survey maps it on the Texas City quadrangle.

Heights within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1929 USGS Texas City quadrangle1:24000
1932 USGS Texas City quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1943 USGS Texas City quadrangle1:25000
1943 USGS Texas City quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Texas City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Texas City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Heights between 2010 and 2015, burning about 233 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
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3042 CEDAR
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CEDAR DR #2
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 519
16 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	412 AVE D
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2605 CORBETT
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CEDAR DR
16 August 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH RIDGECREST FIRE
2 July 2013	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N. RAILROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Heights: 3 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Amoco Texas Refinery	Sulfur	Plant
Gulf Chemical and Metallureical Co	Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer	Clay, Sand
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Galveston 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
Nadeau	0.8 miles	15
Texas City	1.5 miles	15
La Marque	2.6 miles	15
Texas City Junction	2.7 miles	15
Bayou Vista	4.3 miles	15
Texas City Terminal Junction	4.4 miles	15
Hitchcock	5.3 miles	15
Virginia Point	6.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1337564. 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.