Timber Lane, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77373. It lies near Schultz Gully. The Survey maps it on the Spring quadrangle.

Timber Lane within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1916 USGS Spring quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1920 USGS Spring quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Spring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Spring quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Spring quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

92 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Timber Lane between 1993 and 2020, burning about 578 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined	39
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 855
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 834
28 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	27547 REBECCA FIELD
27 September 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 941
25 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RILEY FUZZELL
16 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1200 RILEY FUZZEL
11 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	49 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 894

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Timber Lane: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Houston Plant Bauxite	Aluminum	Past Producer
	Watson Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Northland Shopping Center	0.4 miles	18
Sandpiper	1.5 miles	15
Birnham Wood	1.6 miles	15
Lexington Woods	1.8 miles	18
Sandpiper Village	1.9 miles	15
Spring Lakes	2.0 miles	18
Cypresswood Court	2.1 miles	18
Spring	2.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472697. 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.