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Quail Glen, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Stafford-Missouri City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77489. The Survey maps it on the Missouri City quadrangle.

Quail Glen within Fort Bend County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Quail Glen between 2006 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE047, E080
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE059
10 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
1 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA48D59D68E48E59E68E73E82L51L68M10SF24
24 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE048
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend 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 Quail Glen: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Halite, Bromine, Salt, 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
Blue Ridge DivisionSaltProducer
Blue Ridge MineHalite, BromineProducer1903
Pugmill #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Hunters Glen1.1 miles11
Quail Valley East1.3 miles11
Hobby1.3 miles13
Chasewood1.6 miles11
Quail Valley1.8 miles11
Fifth Street2.0 miles11
Kingsway2.1 miles11
Thunderbird West2.3 miles11

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 Q122541419The 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 2471821. 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.