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Old River Terrace, Texas

14 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 77530. The Survey maps it on the Jacinto City quadrangle.

Old River Terrace within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Old River Terrace between 2006 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 878
11 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
25 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH CASTLEGORY RD FIRE
25 May 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 130
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 98
28 April 2011Smoking1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 349
25 October 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 1013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Old River Terrace: 7 producers, 2 plants, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, Chlorine. 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
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Deer Park Sulfur PlantSulfur, ChlorineProducer
Wallisvill Road Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
Judson Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kaiser Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pasadena Fertitex Phos. Acid Pl.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Pasadena KerleyPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Pasadena Mobil Phos. Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1966
Pasadena Phos-Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant1991
Pasadena PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer

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
Delldale0.4 miles14
Monroe Place0.6 miles14
Sterling Forest0.7 miles14
Shadow Glen0.8 miles14
Channelview1.1 miles17
Channel Wood1.1 miles14
Lake View Homes1.4 miles17
Lakeside Park Estates1.4 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 Q122540315The 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 2472190. 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.