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Sandpiper Village, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77373. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maedan quadrangle.

Sandpiper Village within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

61 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Sandpiper Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 582 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 855
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 834
28 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service27547 REBECCA FIELD
16 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRILEY FUZZELL
16 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1200 RILEY FUZZEL
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use49 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 894
1 September 2011Arson/incendiarism11 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 820
30 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 815

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 Sandpiper Village: 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
Watson Sand 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
Sandpiper0.6 miles15
Birnham Wood1.1 miles15
Greengate Place1.2 miles15
Post Wood1.3 miles15
Northland Shopping Center1.6 miles18
Timber Lane1.9 miles18
Foxwood2.9 miles15
Lexington Woods3.3 miles18

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 Q122567874The 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 2471877. 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.