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Spears Village, 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 77396. It stands on Reinhardt Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Humble quadrangle.

Spears Village 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

43 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Spears Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 534 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 873
24 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 38
6 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE064
13 August 2000Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 287
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE064
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE064
8 June 1996Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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 Spears Village: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 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
Fred Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yancy Pit & PlantSand 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
Glen Lee Place0.9 miles17
Audubon Park1.3 miles17
Lee Land1.4 miles17
Humble Acres2.2 miles17
Fountain View2.3 miles17
Bordersville2.8 miles15
Humble2.8 miles17
Sequoya Bend3.0 miles17

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 Q122559507The 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 2472654. 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.