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Klein, 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 77379. The Survey maps it on the Tomball quadrangle. It stands 140 feet above sea level.

Klein within Harris County

On record in Klein

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 1 record

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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Klein between 1992 and 2016, burning about 514 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
25 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 281
27 July 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance130 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 May 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service407 FIRE

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 Klein: 1 producer. 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
Forest Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Shannon Forest0.9 miles17
Spring Creek Forest1.7 miles17
Oakwood Glen1.7 miles17
Bridgestone West1.7 miles17
Wimbledon Estates2.3 miles17
Terranova2.5 miles18
Bridgestone Ranch2.6 miles18
Pinewood Place2.6 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 KleinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6420123The 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 1378528. 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.