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Northline Terrace, 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 77037. The Survey maps it on the Aldine quadrangle.

Northline Terrace 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

68 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Northline Terrace between 1997 and 2020, burning about 42 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
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 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

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northline Terrace in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 4 deaths. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNorthline Terrace4 killedNine total fatalities occurred due to the derecho across the City of Houston. One was from a fire from a lightning strike which is entered separately.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindNorthline Terrace$500A tree was downed at the intersection of Theron and Fulton streets.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNorthline Terrace-Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees onto power lines resulting in a power outage in the neighborhood around Witcher Lane.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNorthline Terrace-Large trees were downed across Interstate 45.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNorthline Terrace-A large tree was uprooted and fallen over near the intersection of I-45 and the North Loop near Fulton Street.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindNorthline Terrace-Large tree branches were downed in North Houston near the intersection of Airline Dr and Berry Rd.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindNorthline Terrace-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed power lines along Fulton Street.

Every storm 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
Airline Estates0.8 miles18
Hidden Valley0.8 miles18
Blue Bell Place1.0 miles18
North Country1.1 miles18
Oak Glen Place1.1 miles18
Airline Farms1.1 miles18
Willow Run1.3 miles18
Lincoln City1.3 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 Q122546710The 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 2472161. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.