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Hufsmith, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77375. It lies near Bogs Gully. The Survey maps it on the Tomball quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

Hufsmith within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Hufsmith between 1992 and 2016, burning about 741 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2005Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 406
1 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

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 Hufsmith: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Perlite. 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
Perlite of Houston PlantPerliteProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hufsmith in 7 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindHufsmith$6,000Trees were downed on a home on Drybrook Road, causing a gas leak.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHufsmith$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and caused power outages in the Londonderry neighborhood.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindHufsmith$3,000There were downed trees near Kuykendahl Road in the Haven Lake Estates area.
May 2023HailHufsmith-Public and media reports of hail between quarter and half dollar size.
May 2023Flash FloodHufsmith-Street flooding was reported in the Tomball area as a heavy downpour moved through.
April 2020HailHufsmith-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
May 2020HailHufsmith-Quarter sized hail was observed in the Creekside Park subdivision.

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
Tomball2.0 miles17
Wimbledon Country2.1 miles17
Londonderry2.5 miles17
Waldenwood2.5 miles17
Willow Forest3.1 miles17
Willow3.4 miles17
Pinewood Place3.6 miles17
Albury Manor3.8 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on HufsmithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710516The 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 1338238. 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.