Cedar Lake, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1974. It stands in the Matagorda-Sargent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77414. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Lane quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Cedar Lake within Matagorda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1951 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Cedar Lane quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Lake between 1996 and 2020, burning about 5,040 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	FIREHOUSE FIRE
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	WEED BURNER FIRE
31 August 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	HUNT ROAD
20 August 2020	Natural	58 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	TXSNR-FY20-WF-DOUBLE MOCCASIN POND
5 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1,000 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	WINDMILL
9 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	NEW GATE SOUTH
9 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	NEW GATE NORTH
31 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge	NEW GATE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Matagorda 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hawkinsville	2.0 miles	9
Gainesmore	3.1 miles	9
Sargent	4.8 miles	9
Cedar Lane	5.9 miles	9
Rugeley	10.7 miles	7
Chinquapin	12.3 miles	7
Caney	12.3 miles	7
Chinquapin Landing	12.5 miles	6

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.

Wikipedia article on Cedar Lake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5056786	The 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 1379520. 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.