Norchester, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77070. It lies near Faulkey Gully. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle.

Norchester 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.

1916 USGS Satsuma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1920 USGS Satsuma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Satsuma quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Satsuma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Satsuma quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Norchester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 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/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 August 2015	Debris and open burning	6.4 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4514
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	B066, E066, E096
3 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E096
5 June 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.0 acres	Livingston Area	PLEASANT GROVE FIRE
8 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E004
16 May 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 400
11 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E096
10 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 102

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lakewood West	1.0 miles	16
Grantwood	1.1 miles	16
Tower Oak Plaza	1.3 miles	16
Tallowwood	1.4 miles	16
Mill Ridge North	1.5 miles	16
Tower Oak Bend	1.5 miles	16
Western Estates	1.7 miles	16
Canterbury Forest	1.8 miles	16

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 Q122588859

The 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 2472148. 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.