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Windstone, 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.

Windstone 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 Windstone between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,802 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
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
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAVERICK PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Windstone: 2 producers. 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
A.F. Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Satsuma IiSand 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
Cypress Meadow0.5 miles17
Westfield1.1 miles17
Westfield Village1.1 miles17
Wood Fern1.4 miles17
Rolling Green1.4 miles17
Silvermill1.6 miles17
Deerfield Village1.6 miles17
Bear Creek Plantation1.9 miles17

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 Q122570274The 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 2472467. 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.