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Lakeside, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77565. It stands on Jarbo Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle.

Lakeside within Galveston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

30 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside between 2008 and 2020, burning about 294 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
19 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000473
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
1 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000313
16 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000290
8 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceINTERSECTION-W NASA BYPASS N FR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston 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 Lakeside: 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
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934

Every working recorded in Galveston 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
Glen Cove0.6 miles19
Clear Lake Shores1.5 miles19
Lazy Bend1.7 miles19
Foster Place2.1 miles19
South Shore Village2.2 miles19
Kemah2.2 miles19
Meadow Bend2.2 miles19
Bay Breeze2.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1339537. 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.