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Shiloh, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77575. It stands on Shiloh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shiloh quadrangle.

Shiloh within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Shiloh between 1996 and 2009, burning about 118 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
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
31 August 2000Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 346
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 41
2 March 2009Arson/incendiarism65 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 65
13 March 1996Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shiloh: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, 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
Moss Bluff MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1944, 1948, 1982
Sand Pit No.2SilicaProducer
Baytown 146 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shiloh in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Flash FloodShiloh-Six inches of water were over roadways to the southeast of Liberty around the Pignut Gully, Shiloh Creek and FM 770 areas.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Moss Bluff3.0 miles11
Tivett3.2 miles10
Cow Island5.0 miles13
Abshier Settlement5.1 miles10
Negros Liberty Settlement (historical)6.0 miles13
Timber Lake Estates6.5 miles11
Raywood6.7 miles13
Old River Community6.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380533. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.