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West University Place, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77005. The Survey maps it on the Bellaire quadrangle. 14,955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

West University Place within Harris County

Population over time

2 figures

West University Place grew from 14,787 to 14,955 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201014,787
202014,955+168 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

72 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of West University Place between 2000 and 2020, burning about 49 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceD6,D8,E7,E8,E9,E16,E17,L6,L7,L16,M19,SF30
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceD028, E007, E016, L007, M006, SF024
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE007
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE016
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE006
4 August 2000Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 254
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE048
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of West University Place: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite, Sulfur, 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
Plant No. 2Barium-BariteProducer
Signal Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Vermiculite Products PlantVermiculiteProducer
Echo Ii Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Walkers Sand IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Southside Place0.8 miles11
Bellaire Junction1.0 miles11
Southampton Place1.5 miles11
Braeswood1.6 miles11
Bellaire1.6 miles11
Linkwood2.0 miles11
Lamar Terrace2.1 miles11
Woodside2.5 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on West University PlaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982459The 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 1349820. 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.