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Hide-A-Way Lake, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75771. It stands on Davis Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sylvan quadrangle.

Hide-A-Way Lake within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Hide-A-Way Lake between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,052 acres in total. 1 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 burning89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2009Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 211
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service46 CURVE FIRE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 46 FIRE
4 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2004Smoking3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 143

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hide-A-Way Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Lindale PitsFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Smith 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
Hideaway0.1 miles15
Mount Sylvan2.4 miles15
Wood Springs2.9 miles15
Lindale3.0 miles13
Thedford3.2 miles15
Carroll3.5 miles13
Garden Valley5.2 miles16
New Harmony5.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034744. 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.