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Market at Hunting Bayou, Texas

14 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 77029. It lies near Jordan Gully. The Survey maps it on the Jacinto City quadrangle.

Market at Hunting Bayou within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

27 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Market at Hunting Bayou between 2006 and 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning3
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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 878
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041, E042
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE044, L044
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE044, L044
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE027

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Market at Hunting Bayou: 24 producers, 3 plants, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Clay. 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
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Champion PaperCalciumProducer
Houston Barite,PlantStrontium, Bentonite, Barium-BariteProducer
Houston Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
(Facility) Atlantic Richfield RefinerySulfurPlant
Charter International Oil CoSulfurProducer
Galena Park Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
U S Gypsum Calcining PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

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
Jacinto City0.3 miles14
Songwood1.0 miles14
Woodland Acres1.2 miles14
Greens Bayou1.3 miles14
Oates Prairie1.9 miles14
Wallsville Gardens2.2 miles14
El Dorado2.4 miles17
Hidden Forest2.4 miles14

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 Q122550059The 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 2472102. 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.