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Pembroke Place, Texas

17 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 77076. The Survey maps it on the Settegast quadrangle.

Pembroke Place within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

84 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Pembroke Place between 2005 and 2020, burning about 25 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/undetermined82
Debris and open burning1
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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceD6,D19,E12,E15,E19,E30,L6,L19,M19,SF30
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE067
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE056
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE030
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARS747, ARS748, E043
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE056
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE058

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 Pembroke Place: 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

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
Hawthorne Place0.6 miles17
Melrose Park1.2 miles17
Plymouth Place1.3 miles17
Graceland Terrace1.3 miles15
Glenburnie1.7 miles15
Woodsdale1.7 miles17
Westfield Estates1.8 miles17
Colonial Gardens2.1 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 Q122595231The 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 2471788. 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.