Lanetown, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the San Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75972. It stands on Mickey Branch. The Survey maps it on the San Augustine East quadrangle.

Lanetown within San Augustine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Augustine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS San Augustine East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS San Augustine East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Lanetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 burning	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
29 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4.7 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SHEEP DOG FIRE
24 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE - TRANSFORMER
19 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7129
1 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 604
1 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 473
9 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Augustine 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
White Rock	2.4 miles	12
Bland Lake	4.3 miles	12
Black Ankle	4.8 miles	12
Calgary	5.1 miles	12
Chumley	5.8 miles	12
San Augustine	5.8 miles	12
Sunrise	6.0 miles	12
Fords Corner	7.6 miles	12

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 Q122554369

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 1889702. 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.