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Scenic Woods, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77016. The Survey maps it on the Settegast quadrangle.

Scenic Woods within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Scenic Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 434 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE032
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE056
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB032, B035, E032, E035, E043
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARS747, ARS748, E043
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE056
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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 Scenic Woods: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Cordell Pit & PlantClayProducer
Houston Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

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
Fontaine Place0.4 miles17
Barclay Place0.5 miles17
Calgary Woods0.8 miles17
Scenic Woods Plaza0.8 miles17
Armstrong Place1.1 miles17
Shady Timbers1.1 miles17
North Shadydale1.2 miles17
Sherwood Place1.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1376033. 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.