Westways, Texas

16 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 77041. The Survey maps it on the Hedwig Village quadrangle.

Westways within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1915 USGS Hillendahl quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1918 USGS Hillendahl quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Addicks quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Hedwig Village quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Hedwig Village quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Hedwig Village quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

36 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Westways between 2011 and 2020, burning about 254 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/undetermined	34
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E078
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E004
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	ROADSIDE
10 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	A5,D4,D5,E5,E50,E66,E77,L4,L38,M62,SF57
8 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 688
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	A77, D005, E066, E077, HM1022, SF030
30 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	215 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 814
21 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E066

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Spring Shadows	0.6 miles	16
Spring Meadows	1.1 miles	16
Carver Dale	1.5 miles	16
Gessner Grove	1.6 miles	16
Fairbanks	2.0 miles	16
Dow Acres	2.0 miles	16
Timber Oaks	2.1 miles	16
Spring Branch Acres	2.2 miles	16

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 Q122565894

The 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 2472437. 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.