Surf Oaks, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Southeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77586. It lies near Pine Gully. The Survey maps it on the Bacliff quadrangle.

Surf Oaks within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1932 USGS Clifton By The Sea quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1943 USGS Clifton By The Sea quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bacliff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Bacliff quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bacliff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Surf Oaks between 2009 and 2015, burning about 22 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DYGLIESHA JEFFERSON
4 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	C15-13570
13 January 2009	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SUNSET RIDGE

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 Surf Oaks: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Laporte Perlite Plant	Perlite	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
El Jardin Del Mar	0.8 miles	15
Baybrook	0.9 miles	19
Mystic Village	1.3 miles	19
Todville	1.8 miles	19
Shady Oaks	1.9 miles	19
Shoreacres	2.3 miles	19
Seabrook	2.3 miles	19
Bayside Terrace	2.8 miles	16

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 Q122554952

The 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 1379133. 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.