Houston Heights, Texas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 112 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Keller Houselisted 1984 · 0.0 miles away
• House at 1435 Heights Boulevardlisted 1988 · 0.0 miles away
• House at 1437 Heights Boulevardlisted 1983 · 0.0 miles away
• Dr. Billie V. Ellis Houselisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• Emil Lindenburg Houselisted 1988 · 0.1 miles away
• Dr. B. F. Coop Houselisted 1984 · 0.1 miles away
• House at 201 W. 15th Streetlisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• Cummings Houselisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• House at 1421 Harvard St.listed 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• House at 1421 Heights Boulevardlisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• Barker Houselisted 1984 · 0.1 miles away
• House at 1509 Allston Streetlisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away

Every listing in Harris County

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.

• 1915 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1922 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1946 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000
• 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Houston Heights quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Houston Heights between 2019 and 2020, burning about 16 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Stone Heights
• Woodland Heights
• Brook Smith
• Glenburnie
• Shady Acres
• Stude

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Houston Heights: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Sulfur, Vermiculite, 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.

Every working recorded in Harris County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1374161. 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.