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Lake Crest Estates, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76179. The Survey maps it on the Lake Worth quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Lake Crest Estates within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

203 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Lake Crest Estates between 2005 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined170
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIDE SADDLE
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDY RYON
6 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHERMAN
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH WEST LOOP 820
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW 820
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHODGKINS
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANCH HAND
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE IH 820

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lake Crest Estates: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Williams PitSilicaProducer
General Portland Inc Ft Worth PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
General Portland Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant 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
Saginaw2.6 miles18
Eagle Mountain2.7 miles16
Lakeview3.4 miles16
Sansom Park3.9 miles17
Blue Mound4.0 miles18
Lake Worth4.2 miles17
Lakeside5.0 miles17
Castle Hill Estate5.4 miles15

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 Lake Crest EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076513The 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 1339496. 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.