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Rustic Acres, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Northeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77532. The Survey maps it on the Crosby quadrangle.

Rustic Acres within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Rustic Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 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/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 942
8 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 685
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 700
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceB065, E065
24 June 1998Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceB065, E065

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rustic Acres: 1 producer. 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
Pendley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris 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
Heathergate0.9 miles15
Happy Hideaway1.3 miles15
Tall Cedars1.5 miles15
Terramare1.7 miles15
Crosby Meadows2.3 miles15
Shorewood2.4 miles18
Crosby Woods2.5 miles15
Lakeside Manor2.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2471863. 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.