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Lamar Terrace, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77056. The Survey maps it on the Bellaire quadrangle.

Lamar Terrace within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

52 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Lamar Terrace between 2019 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined51
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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceD028, E007, E016, L007, M006, SF024
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE007
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE016
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE010
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE038
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE048
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE002
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE021

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lamar Terrace: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Vermiculite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Echo Ii Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Signal Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Vermiculite Products PlantVermiculiteProducer
Chromalloy American CorpBarium-BariteProducer
Plant No. 2Barium-BariteProducer

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
Bellaire Junction1.1 miles11
Briargrove1.5 miles11
Bellaire1.9 miles11
West University Place2.1 miles11
Southside Place2.4 miles11
Hunters Creek Village3.0 miles15
Jeanetta3.2 miles14
Maplewood3.2 miles11

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 Q122557574The 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 1339584. 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.