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Oakwood Glen, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77379. It lies near Theiss Gully. The Survey maps it on the Tomball quadrangle.

Oakwood Glen within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Oakwood Glen between 1992 and 2016, burning about 438 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 834
25 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 281
27 July 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 July 1995Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 400
8 April 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service201115357
7 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service201115195

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 Oakwood Glen: 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
Spring Creek Forest0.5 miles17
Terranova0.8 miles18
Wimbledon Estates1.3 miles17
Bridgestone West1.3 miles17
Wimbledon Champions1.4 miles17
Bammel Forest1.5 miles18
Cypress Villas1.5 miles18
Klein1.7 miles17

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 Q122591227The 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 2472189. 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.