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Wallsville Gardens, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77013. It lies near Spring Gully. The Survey maps it on the Jacinto City quadrangle.

Wallsville Gardens within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

93 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Wallsville Gardens between 1996 and 2020, burning about 255 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 878
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE032
26 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB032, B035, E032, E035, E043
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE039

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Wallsville Gardens: 8 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 plants, 1 past producer. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Clay, Barium-Barite, Strontium, Bentonite, Barium-Barite. 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
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Champion PaperCalciumProducer
Houston Barite PlantBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Barite,PlantStrontium, Bentonite, Barium-BariteProducer
Mayo-Shell Road PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Parker Bros.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Houston Clay Pit and PlantClayUnknown
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary
Pasadena Fertitex Phos. Acid Pl.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Pasadena KerleyPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant

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
Wynnewood Acres0.6 miles14
Oates Prairie0.9 miles14
El Dorado1.6 miles17
Wood Forest1.7 miles14
Pine Trails1.7 miles14
Winterwood Village1.8 miles14
Riviera East1.9 miles14
Songwood2.1 miles14

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 Q122541633The 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 2472721. 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.