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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.

Porter Heights within Montgomery County

Population over time

3 figures

Porter 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,490
20101,653+163 (+11%)
20201,903+250 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

181 since 1992

Regional 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 burning97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8067
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTGOMERY 16:41
28 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 39
25 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 426
22 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bullet Concrete Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sandco Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Sand and Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Sleepy Hollow4.8 miles13
Chateau Woods5.5 miles13
New Caney5.9 miles13
Rayford5.9 miles13
Spring Hills5.9 miles18
Porter6.0 miles19
Timberlane Acres6.2 miles19
Oak Ridge North6.5 miles13

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 HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q929995The 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.