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Sunny Side, 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 77051. The Survey maps it on the Park Place quadrangle.

Sunny Side 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

71 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Sunny Side between 2000 and 2020, burning about 55 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning1

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/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE017
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE035, E055
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE047, E055
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE024, E47
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE046, E055
4 August 2000Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 254
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sunny Side: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Pasadena PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
Pierce Junction MineHalitePast Producer1902
Commercial PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walkers Sand IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunny Side in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2013Thunderstorm WindSunny Side$10,000A severe thunderstorm produced wind damage that knocked down several trees and took off some roof shingles.
May 2019Flash FloodSunny Side-Portions of Griggs Road were impassable due to high flood waters.

Every storm 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
Carolina Gardens0.7 miles16
Brookhaven0.8 miles16
Blueridge0.8 miles11
Sunnyside Gardens1.0 miles16
Inwood Terrace1.0 miles16
Bayou Estates1.1 miles16
Scottcrest1.2 miles16
Smallwood Terrace1.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1376342. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.