Oakhurst Shores, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77571. It stands on Little Cedar Bayou. The Survey maps it on the La Porte quadrangle.

Oakhurst Shores within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1916 USGS Laporte quadrangle1:24000
1920 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1944 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS La Porte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Oakhurst Shores between 1992 and 2015, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DYGLIESHA JEFFERSON
12 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge	TPHATFIELD
4 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	C15-13570

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oakhurst Shores: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Perlite, Perlite, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Filter Media Inc	Perlite, Vermiculite	Producer
	Laporte Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crescent	0.3 miles	16
Bayside Terrace	0.6 miles	16
Gateway Village	0.6 miles	19
Bay Green Colony	0.6 miles	16
Bay Oaks	0.7 miles	16
Shoreacres	1.0 miles	19
Sylvan Beach	1.2 miles	16
Shady Oaks	1.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472182. 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.