Porter Heights, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77365. It stands on Black Branch. The Survey maps it on the Outlaw Pond quadrangle. 1,903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresPorter Heights grew from 1,490 to 1,903 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,490 | |
| 2010 | 1,653 | +163 (+11%) |
| 2020 | 1,903 | +250 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Outlaw Pond quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
181 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Porter Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,645 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 97 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 8067 |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MONTGOMERY 16:41 |
| 28 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 39 |
| 25 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 426 |
| 22 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Porter Heights: 3 producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullet Concrete Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sandco Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Smith Sand and Gravel Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleepy Hollow | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Chateau Woods | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| New Caney | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rayford | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Spring Hills | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Porter | 6.0 miles | 19 | |
| Timberlane Acres | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Oak Ridge North | 6.5 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Porter Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q929995 | The 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 1867563. 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.




