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Westfield, Texas

17 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 77449. The Survey maps it on the Addicks quadrangle.

Westfield within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

17 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Westfield between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,803 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning3
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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE090
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENT SPRING COMMND
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAKER ROAD
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATY FREEWAY
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMASON RD
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE090 L090
30 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined31 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 61

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westfield in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWestfield1 killed, $3,000Strong thunderstorm winds downed a tree on top of a vehicle and caused one fatality at 4600 Treaschwig Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWestfield$500,000Numerous trees were downed in the Woodcreek Subdivision with some onto homes.
January 2012Flash FloodWestfield$25,000Numerous roads in and around the Houston area were closed due to heavy rains and flooding.
November 2004Flash FloodWestfield$15,000Flooding reported between the Interstate 45 northbound feeder and FM 1960. Clay Road covered with a foot and a half of water and impassable.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindWestfield$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind gusts downed several large trees at a horse stable in Northern Harris County, also damaging a fence.
June 1998HailWestfield$5,000Hail along FM 1960.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWestfield$3,000A street sign was damaged near the intersection of Richey Road and Interstate 45.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield-Strong downburst winds resulted in a tree falling on an apartment building in Spring. The building was damaged and several residents were displaced. The wind estimate was from a trained spotter just to the east of the damage site.
April 2020HailWestfield-Penny sized hail was reported near Spring.
September 2019Flash FloodWestfield-Spring Fire Department reports street flooding, water rescues Fairfax Green area. There were also reports of many stalled and stranded vehicles within the flood waters surrounding the Spring area.
September 2017Funnel CloudWestfield-There were reports of funnel clouds between Spring and Bush-Intercontinental Airport. There were also reports of funnel clouds near Richey Road and FM 1960.
August 2017Flash FloodWestfield-Flooding was occurring at and around the FM 1960 and I-45 intersection as Cypress Creek topped banks.||Catastrophic flooding occurred on nearly every one of the 22 watersheds in Harris County. 10 out of the 19 bayous in the county reached record crests and flooding. There was widespread flooding along Buffalo Bayou and upstream and downstream of both Addicks and Barkers Reservoirs due to record level pool elevations. There was major flooding of hundreds of homes within numerous neighboring subdivisions along the San Jacinto River and the East Fork of the San Jacinto River. Lake Conroe's releases and backwater flow from Lake Houston also contributed to the widespread flooding across the northern and northeastern sectors of the county.
August 2017Flash FloodWestfield-There was flooding through the neighborhoods between I-45 and the Hardy Tollway along FM 1960.||Catastrophic flooding occurred on nearly every one of the 22 watersheds in Harris County. 10 out of the 19 bayous in the county reached record crests and flooding. There was widespread flooding along Buffalo Bayou and upstream and downstream of both Addicks and Barkers Reservoirs due to record level pool elevations. There was major flooding of hundreds of homes within numerous neighboring subdivisions along the San Jacinto River and the East Fork of the San Jacinto River. Lake Conroe's releases and backwater flow from Lake Houston also contributed to the widespread flooding across the northern and northeastern sectors of the county.
August 2017Flash FloodWestfield-FM 1960 at Interstate 45 and surrounding roadways within local neighborhoods were inundated with flood waters and impassable.||Catastrophic flooding occurred on nearly every one of the 22 watersheds in Harris County. 10 out of the 19 bayous in the county reached record crests and flooding. There was widespread flooding along Buffalo Bayou and upstream and downstream of both Addicks and Barkers Reservoirs due to record level pool elevations. There was major flooding of hundreds of homes within numerous neighboring subdivisions along the San Jacinto River and the East Fork of the San Jacinto River. Lake Conroe's releases and backwater flow from Lake Houston also contributed to the widespread flooding across the northern and northeastern sectors of the county.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWestfield-Wind gust reported at the intersection of FM 1960 and Aldine Westfield.
June 2012HailWestfield-Penny sized hail observed 3.3 miles southeast of Spring.

Every storm 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
Silvermill0.7 miles17
Cypress Meadow0.7 miles17
Windstone1.1 miles17
Sundown Glen1.2 miles17
Rolling Green1.2 miles17
Westlake Place1.3 miles17
Wood Fern1.4 miles17
Lakes of Bridgewater1.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472424. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.