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Timberlane Acres, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77365. The Survey maps it on the Moonshine Hill quadrangle.

Timberlane Acres within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Timberlane Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 863 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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
Debris and open burning86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism28
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE12
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8067
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTGOMERY 16:41
4 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 94
3 September 2000Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 372
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 39
23 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILL & DALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Timberlane Acres: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bishop Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dewey's Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Merimon Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pitts LeaseSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Oak Terrace0.8 miles19
Porter1.1 miles19
Shadow Lake Estates1.2 miles19
Pittsville1.7 miles19
Adams Oaks1.8 miles19
River Club Estates2.5 miles15
New Caney4.9 miles13
Porter Heights6.2 miles12

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 Q122593058The 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 1385448. 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.