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Park Place, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77546. The Survey maps it on the Friendswood quadrangle.

Park Place within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

40 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Park Place between 2008 and 2020, burning about 42 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
19 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
7 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0000523
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000473
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
17 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Park Place: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Halite. 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
Ideal Basic Industries IncClayProducer
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934
Seabrook Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shelton Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Galveston 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
Poole0.1 miles18
Lori Woods0.2 miles18
Laurelfield0.2 miles18
Perry Grove0.4 miles18
Quaker Landing0.4 miles18
Imperial Gardens0.4 miles18
Quaker Village0.5 miles18
Sterling Wood0.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472199. 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.