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West Wind, Texas

14 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 77082. The Survey maps it on the Clodine quadrangle.

West Wind within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

48 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of West Wind between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,929 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism1

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 ServiceE078
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE090
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6000 FOREST
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,622 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGEORGE BUSH PARK
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined215 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 814
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAKER ROAD
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE010, E073
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE075

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Wind: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Clodine PitClayProducer

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
West Hollow Park0.2 miles14
Parkhollow Place0.3 miles14
Westpark Village0.6 miles14
Ashford Park1.0 miles14
Ashford Village1.0 miles14
Leewood West1.8 miles14
Rodeo Square1.9 miles14
Clayton Park2.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472415. 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.