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Village Grove, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pasadena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77505. The Survey maps it on the Pasadena quadrangle.

Village Grove within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

19 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Village Grove between 2014 and 2020, burning about 19 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/undetermined18
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
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052, E093
14 August 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE070
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE093, L093
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE029
23 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE029 E052

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 Village Grove: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Deepwater Clay PitClayProducer
Hills No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

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
Huntington1.1 miles13
Vita Villas1.3 miles13
Barkgate1.6 miles13
Golden Acres1.8 miles13
Burke Meadow2.3 miles13
Brook Glen2.3 miles16
Preston Manor2.5 miles13
Parkland Village2.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472716. 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.