Laneport, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76574. The Survey maps it on the Granger Lake quadrangle.

Laneport within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000
1963 USGS Granger Lake quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Laneport between 2006 and 2020, burning about 367 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 August 2015	Smoking	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID THRALL AND GRANGER
30 August 2015	Natural	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID THRALL
25 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMALL GRASS FIRE
13 August 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROL BURN OUT OF CONTROL
1 August 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
1 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hare	1.4 miles	14
Elm Grove	2.2 miles	14
Friendship	3.2 miles	14
Sandoval	3.5 miles	14
Hoxie	4.4 miles	14
Wuthrich Hill	6.2 miles	14
Waterloo	6.8 miles	15
Thrall	7.0 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122568513

The 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 1380057. 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.