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Pheasant Creek, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Sugar Land census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77498. It lies near Red Gully. The Survey maps it on the Clodine quadrangle.

Pheasant Creek within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

19 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Pheasant Creek between 2011 and 2020, burning about 89 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service309 CR. 4360
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6000 FOREST
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
27 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW PENNINGTON
26 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE075

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pheasant Creek: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Clodine PitClayProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Fort Bend 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
Village of Oak Lakes0.7 miles14
Summerfield1.0 miles14
Hidden Lake Estates1.1 miles14
Stratford Park1.3 miles14
Shiloh Lake Estates1.4 miles14
Ragus Lake Estates1.4 miles14
Four Corners1.8 miles14
Covington West2.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471790. 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.