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Winchester Country, Texas

16 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 77064. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle.

Winchester Country 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Winchester Country between 2011 and 2020, burning about 16 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

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 ServiceE004
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernard National Wildlife RefugeROADSIDE
1 August 2015Debris and open burning6.4 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4514
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB066, E066, E096
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE096
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE004
8 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE004
31 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE066

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 Winchester Country: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fellows Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

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
Harvest Meadows1.0 miles16
Pedegrel Forest1.9 miles16
Turtle Lake1.9 miles16
Jersey Village1.9 miles16
Satsuma2.1 miles16
Cypress Glen2.1 miles16
Hastings Green2.1 miles16
Windfern Forest2.2 miles16

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 Q122590791The 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 2472459. 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.