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Golden Beach, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78609. It stands on North Coggins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Buchanan quadrangle.

Golden Beach within Llano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

45 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Golden Beach between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,940 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePENINSULA (1700125)
14 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS CHAPARRAL (16-0115)
6 August 2015Smoking600 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUCHANAN DAM (15-0080)
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined376 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHIANS
5 August 2003Arson/incendiarism200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILL COUNTRY - 1
27 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRONCO (1700115)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Golden Beach: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Talc-Soapstone, REE, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zirconium, Beryllium, Lead, Uranium, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Molybdenum. 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
Baringer Hill MineREE, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zirconium, Beryllium, Lead, Uranium, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Molybdenum, Lithium, Rubidium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, ZincPast Producer1887
Rare-Earth MineREEPast ProducerGadolinite
Road Material PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Talc OccurrenceTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc
Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerGranite
Texas Crushed Stone Llano QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Llano 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
Bluffton1.7 miles18
Buchanan Lake Village3.6 miles18
Buchanan Dam4.7 miles20
Stolz4.8 miles16
Lone Grove5.6 miles16
Tow5.7 miles18
Lakeside Heights8.4 miles20
Gainesville8.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034950. 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.