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Kohrville, 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 77070. The Survey maps it on the Tomball quadrangle.

Kohrville 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Kohrville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
13 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 281
1 August 2015Debris and open burning6.4 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4514
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE096
8 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE004
28 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service407 FIRE
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE096
17 April 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 279
16 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution45 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 269

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kohrville in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2016LightningKohrville2 hurtThere were several house fires caused by lightning strikes. A couple of minor injuries were reported, including one person sustaining minor burns while trying to put out the fire, and another person getting shocked while using the microwave at the time of the lightning strike.
July 2012Flash FloodKohrville$3,000North Eldridge Parkway south of Grant Road was impassable due to high water.
June 2023HailKohrville-Quarter sized hail was reported just northeast of Cypress.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKohrville-A large tree was downed along Jaycreek Drive.
June 2012HailKohrville-Dime sized hail was reported at the intersection of Louetta and Grant Road.

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
Charterwood0.9 miles17
Canterbury Forest0.9 miles16
Louetta1.4 miles17
Western Estates1.5 miles16
Westbourne1.7 miles17
Lakewood West1.9 miles16
Northpointe East2.0 miles17
Three Lakes East2.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378533. 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.

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.