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Lanark, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75572. The Survey maps it on the Atlanta North quadrangle.

Lanark within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

367 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 367 fires within 5 miles of Lanark between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,545 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 53 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 burning199
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Arson/incendiarism53
Equipment and vehicle use19
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013148
6 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCASS 16:35
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011179
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011177
5 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010159
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lanark: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
AtlantaIronUnknown
Atlanta DepositIronPast ProducerGoethite, Hematite
Bowie HillIronUnknown
Bowie Hill DepositIronPast Producer1864
Hickory Hill OccurrenceIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanark in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Lanark$100,000An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 100 mph embedded within a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) briefly touched down on County Road 3658, before crossing Highway 59 between the Queen City and Domino communities. The tornado continued to track northeast, crossing County Road 3664 before lifting near County Road 3665. Numerous trees were uprooted along the tornado's path, and destroyed several metal outbuildings while damaging the roofs of manufactured homes along County Roads 3658 and 3664 before lifting.
December 2008HailLanark-Hail fell 3 miles north of Queen City, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Queen City2.3 miles13
Springdale3.6 miles13
Cass4.7 miles12
Atlanta4.8 miles12
Antioch5.6 miles10
Bloomburg5.7 miles12
New Liberty5.8 miles10
Domino6.0 miles19

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 LanarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710934The 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 1378556. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.