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Clear Lake, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75407. It stands on Ticky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavon quadrangle. It stands 530 feet above sea level.

Clear Lake within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

201 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Clear Lake between 2005 and 2017, burning about 582 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-365
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-362
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 78 & FM 6 - 11075970
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 966 AND COUNTY ROAD 487
27 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1154 ROLLING MEADOW DR - 14098364
26 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10489 STATE HIGHWAY 205 - 14097962
20 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH BRANCH - 217

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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
Beverly Hill0.7 miles11
Yucote Acres1.7 miles11
Branch2.0 miles12
Lavon Shores Estates2.1 miles11
Pebble Beach Sunset Acres2.4 miles11
Little Ridge2.4 miles11
Trinity Park2.6 miles12
Deep Water Point Estates2.7 miles11

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 Clear LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4918287The 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 1378127. 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.