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Kingwood, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77339. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maedan quadrangle. 81,692 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 48 feet above sea level.

Kingwood within Harris County

On record in Kingwood

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

96 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Kingwood between 1993 and 2020, burning about 687 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism18
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE12
3 September 2000Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 372
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 38
2 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST HAMMOND
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE101
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE102
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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 Kingwood: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Silica. 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
Humble Dome ProspectSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceAnhydrite, Gypsum, Halite
Vestal PitSilicaProducer
Fred Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yancy Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingwood in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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
September 2019Flash FloodKingwood1 killedNumerous roads flooded and impassable. A flat roof collapsed due to weight of water near Aldine. Drowning victim found submerged near Mount Houston Road SW of Aldine.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKingwood$30,000Numerous large trees downed and several homes damaged.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKingwood$25,000Trees down.
May 2000HailKingwood$15,000Dime sized hail at US 59 and Aldine-Bender.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindKingwood$15,000Trees down.
April 2000HailKingwood$15,000A cold front moving across southeast Texas spawned a line of thunderstorms which moved across the eastern half of the area during the evening of April 7th. Dime to golfball sized hail was reported in several locations with a couple of reports of wind damage.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindKingwood$15,000Trees down at intersection of Northpark and E. Lake Houston.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKingwood$10,000Large trees uprooted.
May 2000HailKingwood$10,000no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodKingwood$7,000Street flooding in and around Kingwood.
April 2004HailKingwood$5,000Penny-size hail reported (Key Map 295X)
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKingwood$5,000Trees blown down.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindKingwood$5,000no account filed
May 2021Flash FloodKingwood$3,000An underpass was flooded along Interstate 69 South near East Mount Houston Rd, resulting in at least one stalled vehicle.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindKingwood$3,000There were tree limbs and power lines downed in the Kings Mill subdivision.
June 2025FloodKingwood-Storm chaser shared video on social media showing ponding on I-69 frontage road.
March 2024HailKingwood-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2023Flash FloodKingwood-Standing water was reported on the I-69 frontage Rd near Kingwood.
September 2019Flash FloodKingwood-Roof collapse due to weight of flood waters at post office facility. Also numerous roads flooded in the Aldine area.
September 2016Funnel CloudKingwood-The rope like funnel cloud was spotted at the intersection of East Mount Houston and Homestead Roads.

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
Black Cat Ridge1.0 miles19
Riverside Crest1.7 miles19
North Shore2.1 miles19
Belleau Wood2.3 miles19
Kenswick2.4 miles15
Humble2.4 miles17
Moonshine Hill2.5 miles19
Bordersville2.8 miles15

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 KingwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6413808The 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 1385469. 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.