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Nasawood, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It lies in ZIP code area 77581. The Survey maps it on the Friendswood quadrangle.

Nasawood within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

40 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Nasawood between 2007 and 2020, burning about 164 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
14 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE
7 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0000523
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013018
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093, L093
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB093 D070 E070 E093
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
17 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093

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 Nasawood: 1 producer. 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
Shelton Sand PitSand 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
Baker Editions1.6 miles18
Forestwood2.0 miles18
Forest Green2.3 miles18
Green Tree Terrace2.7 miles18
South Bend3.0 miles18
Sagemeadow3.5 miles18
Sageglen3.6 miles18
Highland Meadows3.9 miles18

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 Q122565262The 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 2472146. 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.