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Melrose Gardens, Texas

15 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 77091. The Survey maps it on the Houston Heights quadrangle.

Melrose Gardens within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

66 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Melrose Gardens between 1997 and 2020, burning about 27 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning2
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
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013, E067
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE067
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE030
4 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE058
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013
30 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE067

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Melrose Gardens: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Chromalloy American CorpBarium-BariteProducer

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
Highland Heights0.5 miles15
Lincoln City1.4 miles18
Highland Acres Homes1.5 miles15
Highland Gardens1.8 miles18
Graceland Terrace2.0 miles15
Willow Run2.1 miles18
Glenburnie2.2 miles15
Pinemont Plaza2.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472118. 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.