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Lakeview, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75487. The Survey maps it on the Hagansport quadrangle.

Lakeview within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,542 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 339
17 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1028
6 August 2015Debris and open burning13 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6117
26 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2003Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 214
23 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 210
14 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 579

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Hagansport3.2 miles8
Oakdale3.4 miles8
Eureka4.9 miles8
Daphne6.5 miles8
Mount Vernon7.5 miles8
Union11.2 miles8
Hopewell13.1 miles9
Majors13.4 miles9

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 LakeviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q112967935The 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 2034845. 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.