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Sherwood Trails Village, Texas

19 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 77339. The Survey maps it on the Moonshine Hill quadrangle.

Sherwood Trails Village within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood Trails Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE12
3 September 2000Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 372
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILL & DALE
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE102
2 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST HAMMOND
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 412
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sherwood Trails Village: 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Silica. 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
Humble Dome ProspectSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceAnhydrite, Gypsum, Halite
Vestal PitSilicaProducer
Bishop Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dewey's Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Merimon Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pitts LeaseSand 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
Bear Branch Village0.5 miles19
Elm Grove Village0.7 miles19
Hunter Ridge Village1.1 miles19
Kings Forest1.2 miles19
Woodland Hills Village1.2 miles19
Greentree Village1.2 miles19
Dunnam2.0 miles19
Dogwood Acres2.3 miles19

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 Q122556473The 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 2472634. 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.