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MacGregor Palms, Texas

16 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 77021. It lies near Kuhlman Gully. The Survey maps it on the Park Place quadrangle.

MacGregor Palms within Harris County

On record in MacGregor Palms

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

81 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of MacGregor Palms between 2000 and 2020, burning about 50 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/undetermined80
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceD6,D8,E7,E8,E9,E16,E17,L6,L7,L16,M19,SF30
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE017
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE035, E055
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE017
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE007
4 August 2000Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 254
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of MacGregor Palms: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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
Houston Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Lone Star Clay PitClayProducer
Pasadena PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Charter International Oil CoSulfurProducer
Gulf Coast PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Houston Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Lone Star Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Golfview Manor0.8 miles16
Foster Place0.9 miles16
Mayfair0.9 miles16
Pine Valley1.0 miles16
Kings Court1.3 miles16
Riverside Terrace1.5 miles16
Riverview1.5 miles16
Smallwood Terrace1.5 miles16

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 Q122556140The 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 2472095. 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.