Lacy, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75845. It stands on Kemper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Groveton East quadrangle.

Lacy within Trinity 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Groveton East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Groveton East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Lacy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,837 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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 burning	46
Arson/incendiarism	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 387
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	9.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	528-A
23 September 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 895
11 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8068
11 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.5 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	LTSP AGAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity 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
Groveton	4.0 miles	11
Josserand	4.8 miles	11
Sumpter (historical)	5.0 miles	11
Westville	5.8 miles	11
Centerville	5.8 miles	10
Woodlake	6.0 miles	11
Sulphur	6.7 miles	12
Crecy	6.9 miles	10

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 Lacy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6469165	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 2034819. 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.