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Winter Valley Estates, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77535. The Survey maps it on the Simmons Bottom quadrangle.

Winter Valley Estates within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

51 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Winter Valley Estates between 1996 and 2012, burning about 365 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
7 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
1 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
6 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
26 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Fullerton1.9 miles13
Kenefick2.0 miles13
Simmons Bottom2.0 miles12
Martha3.3 miles13
Dayton Lakes3.6 miles12
Champ d'Asile (historical)5.2 miles13
Dayton5.6 miles13
Sandune5.9 miles13

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 Q122557170The 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 1384185. 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.