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Springdale, Texas

15 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 77055. The Survey maps it on the Houston Heights quadrangle.

Springdale within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

51 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Springdale between 2019 and 2020, burning about 14 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/undetermined51

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 ServiceE004
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013, E067
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE067
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA5,D4,D5,E5,E50,E66,E77,L4,L38,M62,SF57
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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Springdale: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Barium-Barite, 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
Chromalloy American CorpBarium-BariteProducer
Signal Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Vermiculite Products PlantVermiculiteProducer

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
Ridgecrest0.4 miles15
Monarch Oaks0.8 miles15
Spring Oaks0.9 miles15
Pine Terrace1.1 miles15
Fairway Park1.2 miles15
Central Park Northwest1.2 miles15
Spring Branch Gardens1.3 miles16
Hilshire Village1.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472663. 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.