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Louetta, 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. It lies near Pillot Gully. The Survey maps it on the Tomball quadrangle.

Louetta 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Louetta 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB066, E066, E096
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
16 May 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 400
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE096
17 April 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 279

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louetta in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2009Flash FloodLouetta$3,500,000Heavy rainfall persisted across the county as several thunderstorms produced rainfall totals of 8 to 10 inches across the county. Numerous roads were closed in areas of the county, including Jersey Village, Houston Heights, La Porte, Pasadena, Webster, and near the Houston Hobby airport. More than 350 homes were flooded due to the heavy rains and flooding along bayous. In some areas residential streets were reported to have more than one foot of standing water. The highest one hour rainfall total was 6.90 inches recorded at Bay Area Blvd and Clear Creek. This exceeds the highest one hour rainfall rate measured during Tropical Storm Allison in June 2001, which was 6.30 inches.||In the northern part of the county five children were killed after the car they were riding in inadvertently drove into a drainage ditch that was filled with nine feet of water from the heavy rainfall. Two adults and one child were able to escape the floodwaters, but the five younger children, all under 7 years old, were not able to escape.
July 2013LightningLouetta$30,000A lightning strike caused an attic fire in a residential home.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindLouetta$10,000Numerous trees down and signal lights damaged near HWY 249
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLouetta$7,000Trees were down at the Jersey Meadow Golf Course.
June 2008HailLouetta$5,000Nickel size hail was observed just north of Jersey Village.
July 2012Flash FloodLouetta$1,000Parts of Eldridge Parkway near 290 became impassable due to high water.
March 2024HailLouetta-Quarter sized hail was observed.
March 2024HailLouetta-Nickel sized hail was observed.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindLouetta-Several trees were downed in the Jersey Village area.
January 2017Tornado (EF0)Louetta-A witness watched this weak tornado touch down and track over three houses along Perry Road in the Harvest Village subdivision then lift. The three homes sustained roof, window and fence damage. In one case, damaged fences from one home were lifted onto the roof of another home. The storm survey revealed high end EF0 damage with winds estimated near 80 mph.
August 2017Flash FloodLouetta-Sections of US 290 were closed due to flooding between the 610 Loop and FM 529 in Jersey Village.

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
Charterwood0.6 miles17
Kohrville1.4 miles17
Canterbury Forest1.5 miles16
Western Estates2.2 miles16
Lakewood West2.2 miles16
Shannon Forest2.3 miles17
Woods of Wimbledon2.3 miles16
Norchester2.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378613. 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.