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Oakland Plaza, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77087. The Survey maps it on the Park Place quadrangle.

Oakland Plaza 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.

Fires near this place

58 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Oakland Plaza between 2019 and 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined58

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE017
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE035, E055
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE024
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE046
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA36D26D70E29E36E52E61FM22HM2022L29L61M70SF24

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Oakland Plaza: 13 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Pasadena PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
South Houston Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
(Facility) Atlantic Richfield RefinerySulfurPlant
Charter International Oil CoSulfurProducer
Galena Park Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Ideal Cement Clay PitClayProducer
Lone Star Clay PitClayProducer

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
Kings Court0.8 miles16
Saint Rosa0.8 miles16
Golfcrest0.8 miles16
Greenway Place1.0 miles16
Mayfair1.2 miles16
Glenbrook Valley1.3 miles16
Golfview Manor1.3 miles16
Park Place1.5 miles16

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 Q122552614The 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 2472183. 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.