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Winterwood Village, Texas

14 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 77049. It lies near Spring Gully. The Survey maps it on the Jacinto City quadrangle.

Winterwood Village within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Winterwood Village between 1994 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. None 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3

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 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 878
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE032
26 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceB032, B035, E032, E035, E043
26 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 325

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Winterwood Village: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Calcium. 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
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Champion PaperCalciumProducer
Parker Bros.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Houston Clay Pit and PlantClayUnknown
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary

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
Pine Trails0.9 miles14
Beaumont Place1.1 miles14
Ralston Acres1.2 miles14
Houmont Park1.5 miles14
Royalwood1.5 miles14
Wood Forest North1.7 miles14
Wallsville Gardens1.8 miles14
Redwood Estates1.8 miles14

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 Q122590255The 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 2472469. 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.