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Highland Meadows, 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 77089. The Survey maps it on the Friendswood quadrangle.

Highland Meadows 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 Highland Meadows between 2007 and 2020, burning about 88 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning3

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
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000473
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
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA36D26D70E29E36E52E61FM22HM2022L29L61M70SF24
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Highland Meadows: 5 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
Hills No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Seabrook Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shelton Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

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
Woodmeadow0.3 miles18
Sageglen0.4 miles18
Sagemont0.8 miles18
Scarsdale0.9 miles18
South Bend0.9 miles18
Sagemeadow1.2 miles18
Green Tree Terrace1.5 miles18
Kirkwood1.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472028. 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.