Pelly, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Baytown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77520. It lies near Pine Gully. The Survey maps it on the Morgans Point quadrangle.

Pelly within Harris County

On record in Pelly

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

K'nesseth Israel Synagoguelisted 2024 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1916 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:24000
1919 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1943 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pelly between 1992 and 2015, burning about 1,538 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	4
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge	TXPTBEACH
14 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge	TPHATFIELD
27 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge	TPELDRIDGE
31 July 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge	TP CATTLE
18 July 1992	Natural	1,089 acres	McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge	TXPT BEACH
18 April 2006	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 219
6 March 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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 Pelly: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gulf Coast Portland Cement Co	Clay	Past Producer
U S Steel Texas Works	Iron	Producer
(Facility) Exxon Baytown Refinery	Sulfur	Plant
Baytown Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Baytown	0.9 miles	17
Roseland Manor	1.1 miles	17
Allenbrook	2.7 miles	15
Chaparral Village	3.1 miles	15
Country Club Estates	3.1 miles	15
Country Club Gardens	3.3 miles	15
Morgans Point	3.4 miles	17
Country Club Oaks	3.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381084. 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.