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Quail Valley, 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 77459. It stands on Stafford Run. The Survey maps it on the Missouri City quadrangle.

Quail Valley 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Quail Valley between 2006 and 2020, burning about 409 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/undetermined12
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
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
10 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB093, E048, E059, E093
6 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELTWAY 8
26 May 2006Misuse of fire by a minor303 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKE OLYMPIA
27 April 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 Valley: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Halite, Bromine, 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 MineHalite, BromineProducer1903
Pugmill #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sugarland Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1926

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
Quail Valley East0.5 miles11
Thunderbird West0.7 miles11
Dewalt1.2 miles11
Quail Glen1.8 miles11
Fifth Street1.9 miles11
Smada2.0 miles11
Trammels2.5 miles11
Hunters Glen2.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471823. 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.