Pittsville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Fulshear-Simonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77441. The Survey maps it on the Fulshear quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pittsville within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Fulshear quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pittsville (historical) between 2009 and 2011, burning about 155 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/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HUNT ROAD
17 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
12 February 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fulshear	2.6 miles	9
Weston Lakes	2.8 miles	9
Simonton	4.1 miles	9
Pleasant Hill	5.0 miles	9
Fawn Lake	6.9 miles	13
Foster	7.0 miles	10
Pin Oak Village	7.1 miles	13
Falcon Point	7.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2747936. 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.