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Spring Branch 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 77080. The Survey maps it on the Hedwig Village quadrangle.

Spring Branch 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

47 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Spring Branch Gardens between 2002 and 2020, burning about 91 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
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE078
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE004
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA5,D4,D5,E5,E50,E66,E77,L4,L38,M62,SF57
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 688
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE038
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA77, D005, E066, E077, HM1022, SF030
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE066

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spring Branch Gardens: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Signal Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

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
Spring Oaks0.8 miles15
Ridgecrest1.0 miles15
Spring Valley1.1 miles16
Springdale1.3 miles15
Monarch Oaks1.5 miles15
Hilshire Village1.5 miles15
Spring Branch Acres1.7 miles16
Hedwig Village1.8 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 Q122566492The 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 2472657. 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.