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Sam Houston National Forest

Alexander Hatley · CC BY 2.0

62% trees around it and 64 species recorded.

70Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWild

  • trees within 3 km62%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded64
  • Altitude122 m

The forest around

62% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 79%Grassland 21%Cropland 0%Trees 60%Grassland 38%Water 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 66%Grassland 33%Water 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 79%Grassland 20%Water 0%Built-up 0%62%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km79%
  • 1–3 km60%
  • 3–6 km66%
  • 6–10 km79%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees60%
  • Grassland38%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up1%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

64 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

American beautyberry
American beautyberryCallicarpa americana4 recordsAlex Abair · CC BY 4.0
Woolly croton
Woolly crotonCroton capitatus3 recordsEamonnPKeane at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Crimson Clover
Crimson CloverTrifolium incarnatum3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow jessamine
Yellow jessamineGelsemium sempervirens2 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Cassina
CassinaIlex vomitoria2 recordsLuteus · CC BY 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

70out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 62%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 64Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 122 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in February and in November.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan15°4°90 mm
  2. Feb17°6°77 mm
  3. Mar22°10°90 mm
  4. Apr26°14°87 mm
  5. May30°18°121 mm
  6. Jun34°22°122 mm
  7. Jul34°23°92 mm
  8. Aug35°23°107 mm
  9. Sep32°20°103 mm
  10. Oct27°14°125 mm
  11. Nov21°9°96 mm
  12. Dec16°5°98 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sam Houston National Forest.

National forest in east Texas

Sam Houston National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 62% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

64 species have been recorded around it: 5 plants, 0 fungi, 59 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: American beautyberry, Woolly croton and Crimson Clover.

The best time to walk is in February and in November.

USA - Texas - Sam Houston National Forest - Lake Conroe - 51632123698
Alexander Hatley · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Sam Houston National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmBig Woods Trail Camp
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Sam Houston National Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Shepard Hill17 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Dunwoody Lake0.2 km² · 14 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Lone Star Hiking Trail, Sam Houston National Forest
William L. Farr · CC BY 4.0
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), Sam Houston National Forest, Walker County, Texas, USA (September 2020)
William L. Farr · CC BY-SA 4.0
USA - Texas - Sam Houston National Forest - Lake Conroe - 50922999668
Alexander Hatley · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Sam Houston National Forest

United States

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 64Species

Angelina National Forest

United States · 121 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 96Species

See the guide

Sabine National Forest

United States · 169 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 95Species

See the guide

Kisatchie National Forest

United States · 297 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 68Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q916082) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species448 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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