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South Houston Gardens, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77017. The Survey maps it on the Park Place quadrangle.

South Houston Gardens within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

45 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of South Houston Gardens between 2019 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined45

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
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052, E093
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE061
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA36D26D70E29E36E52E61FM22HM2022L29L61M70SF24
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB093 D070 E070 E093

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of South Houston Gardens: 16 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sulfur. 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
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
South Houston Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934
(Facility) Atlantic Richfield RefinerySulfurPlant
Charter International Oil CoSulfurProducer
Galena Park Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Ideal Cement Clay PitClayProducer
Lone Star Clay PitClayProducer
U S Gypsum Calcining PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Fellow Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Genoa 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
Gulf Freeway Oaks0.7 miles16
South Houston1.0 miles13
Freeway Manor1.0 miles13
East Haven1.5 miles16
Glenbrook Valley1.5 miles16
Sun Valley1.7 miles13
Meadow Creek Village1.9 miles13
Saint Rosa2.3 miles16

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 Q122558777The 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 2472644. 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.