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Olde Oaks, Texas

18 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 77068. It lies near Spring Gully. The Survey maps it on the Spring quadrangle.

Olde Oaks within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Olde Oaks between 1995 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 834
24 July 1995Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE084
8 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE004
17 May 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 400
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE096
8 April 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service201115357

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 Olde Oaks: 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
Oak Creek Village0.5 miles18
Wimbledon Champions0.8 miles17
Bammel Timbers1.0 miles18
Ponderosa Forest1.0 miles18
Bammel Forest1.1 miles18
Bammel1.3 miles18
Terranova1.3 miles18
Cypress Villas1.5 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 Q122544674The 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 2472191. 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.