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Northborough, Texas

18 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 77067. The Survey maps it on the Aldine quadrangle.

Northborough within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Northborough between 1993 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB032, E032, E084
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 834
4 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
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
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE058
20 August 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 743
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE084

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 Northborough: 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
Forest 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
Southbrook0.4 miles18
Glen Forest0.6 miles18
Lincoln Green East1.8 miles18
Imperial Valley2.0 miles18
McKamy Meadow2.2 miles18
Greenbranch2.3 miles18
Aldine2.6 miles18
Central Green2.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472153. 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.