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Oak Glen Place, 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 77060. The Survey maps it on the Aldine quadrangle.

Oak Glen Place 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

63 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Oak Glen Place between 1997 and 2020, burning about 41 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE056
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

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 Oak Glen Place: 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

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
Traweek Gardens0.8 miles18
Airline Terrace1.1 miles18
Airline Estates1.1 miles18
Northline Terrace1.1 miles18
Blue Bell Place1.1 miles18
Airline Farms1.6 miles18
Hidden Valley1.7 miles18
Imperial Valley1.7 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 Q122564722The 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 2472175. 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.