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Laceola, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77871. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madisonville quadrangle.

Laceola within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

57 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Laceola between 2005 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE #25
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE #23
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE #39
14 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH VIEW RANCH DR
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE #21
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILL HOWLE
14 August 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACOBSON RD
6 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSONKEY WALTHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Laceola: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
Day Salt DomeHaliteOccurrenceHalite

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laceola in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Laceola$1,000,000This EF1 tornado first touched down along Highway 190/21 just southwest of Madisonville and then tracked to the northeast through town. There was significant damage to several homes and a few businesses, including the brick facade of a building at the intersection of Collard Street and Highway 75. A few power poles were also snapped at this intersection.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLaceola-Trees were downed.
April 2024Flash FloodLaceola-Numerous roads across portions of the county were reported closed due Flash Flooding, including in Madisonville proper.
April 2022HailLaceola-There was ping pong ball sized hail near Madisonville.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLaceola-Trees were downed at the Madisonville library.
May 2015Flash FloodLaceola-Numerous impassable roads were closed due to flood waters in Madisonville and Midway.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Cottonwood4.1 miles9
Madisonville4.3 miles11
Mecca4.3 miles9
George6.5 miles9
Jenkins6.8 miles10
North Zulch7.4 miles9
Cross Roads8.4 miles9
Connor9.2 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122573551The 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 1380046. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.