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Magnolia Gardens, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77044. It stands on Granite Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crosby quadrangle.

Magnolia Gardens within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Magnolia Gardens between 1994 and 2019, burning about 78 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 831
9 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH-CENTRAL-793
23 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 222
15 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Magnolia Gardens: 9 producers, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Wallisvill Road Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
Pendley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rightway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Rightway Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
San Jacinto Excavation CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sheldon Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Specialty Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Swilley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Swilley Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Van Road Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magnolia Gardens in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 2004LightningMagnolia Gardens1 killed27 year old male killed at Magnolia Gardens Park on the San Jacinto River after lightning struck a nearby tree.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Gardens$1,000Power lines were downed onto two vehicles on the Beaumont Highway bridge over the San Jacinto River.
October 2014HailMagnolia Gardens-Nickel sized hail was observed on Highway 90 at the San Jacinto River.

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
Sheldon1.5 miles14
Sheldon Acres2.5 miles14
Barrett2.7 miles15
Sheldon Park2.8 miles14
Fontain2.8 miles15
Crosby3.2 miles15
Airstream4.0 miles14
Reservoir Acres4.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362082. 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.

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.