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Melendy, Texas

16 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 77041. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle.

Melendy within Harris County

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

21 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Melendy between 2011 and 2020, burning about 34 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 ServiceE004
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernard National Wildlife RefugeROADSIDE
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 688
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA77, D005, E066, E077, HM1022, SF030
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE066
17 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA77,D04,D05,E05,E49,E50,E77,L04,L77,M78,MPR66,SF57
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE077
1 August 2015Debris and open burning6.4 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4514

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Melendy: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
A.F. Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fellows Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Satsuma IiSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Jersey Village0.7 miles16
Jersey Acres1.2 miles16
Hilltop Acres1.3 miles16
Brookhollow West1.4 miles16
Pedegrel Forest1.7 miles16
Windfern Forest1.8 miles16
Creekside Estates South2.2 miles16
Satsuma2.3 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 Q122563142The 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 1380175. 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.