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Southwood Place, Texas

14 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 77035. The Survey maps it on the Alief quadrangle.

Southwood Place within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

56 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Southwood Place between 2011 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE047, E080
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE010
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE048
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE021

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Southwood Place: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. 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
Pierce Junction MineHalitePast Producer1902
Pugmill #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Westbury0.4 miles11
Northfield0.6 miles14
Main Street Gardens0.6 miles14
Parkwest0.7 miles11
Northbrook0.8 miles14
Westbury South0.9 miles11
Heakers0.9 miles11
Fondren Center1.1 miles14

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 Q122552022The 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 2472652. 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.