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Lakeside Heights, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78639. The Survey maps it on the Kingsland quadrangle.

Lakeside Heights within Llano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

113 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside Heights between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,432 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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
6 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSLAB FIRE
26 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceELLEN WILLIAMS TRACTOR FIRE
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16-027513
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 29 (16-0117)
1 September 2019Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceORCHARD
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHVVFD FIRE
31 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHVVFD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Lakeside Heights: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar, REE, Stone, Dimension. 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
Rose QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Williams MineREE, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerAllanite, Fluorite
Badu Hill MineFeldspar, REEPast Producer1936
Disintegrated FeldsparFeldsparUnknown
Williams MineFeldspar, REEPast Producer1936
Bilbrough Marble Longhorn Cream QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Burnett PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cactus Canyon Llano QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Premier Rose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pure Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Llano 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
Kingsland2.6 miles20
Buchanan Dam3.7 miles20
Gainesville5.8 miles15
Sunrise Beach Village6.1 miles19
Golden Beach8.4 miles18
Stolz9.8 miles16
Bluffton10.0 miles18
Horseshoe Bay10.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034566. 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.