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Wood Forest, 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 77015. It lies near Big Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Jacinto City quadrangle.

Wood Forest 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

72 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Wood Forest between 1996 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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
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
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE032, E043
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041, E042
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE044, L044

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wood Forest: 6 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 plants, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mayo-Shell Road PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Parker Bros.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Houston Clay Pit and PlantClayUnknown
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary
Pasadena Fertitex Phos. Acid Pl.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Pasadena KerleyPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Pasadena Mobil Phos. Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1966
Pasadena Phos-Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant1991

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
Riviera East0.3 miles14
Wood Forest North0.8 miles14
Hidden Forest0.9 miles14
Pine Trails1.0 miles14
Wallsville Gardens1.7 miles14
Winterwood Village1.8 miles14
Cloverleaf1.8 miles14
Greens Bayou2.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2472471. 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.