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Lake View Homes, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77530. The Survey maps it on the Highlands quadrangle.

Lake View Homes within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lake View Homes between 2006 and 2011, burning about 63 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 878
3 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH CASTLEGORY RD FIRE
25 May 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 130
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 98
25 October 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 1013
19 January 2009Misuse of fire by a minor35 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake View Homes: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Chlorine. 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
Deer Park Sulfur PlantSulfur, ChlorineProducer
Wallisvill Road Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
Highlands Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Judson Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kaiser Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mantooth Dredge & PlantSand 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
Lakeside Park Estates0.4 miles17
Channelview0.4 miles17
Monroe Place1.0 miles14
New Washington (historical)1.3 miles17
Old River Terrace1.4 miles14
Delldale1.6 miles14
Shadow Glen1.6 miles14
Mantu1.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122540106The 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 2472070. 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.