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Laneville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75667. It stands on Irwin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Laneville quadrangle. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Laneville within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Laneville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 934 acres in total. 8 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Natural73 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6303
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use94 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 537
6 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOCAR JOHNSON
18 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOW
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laneville in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2013Tornado (EF1)Laneville$30,000The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and determined that an EF1 tornado first touched down 6 miles northwest of Mount Enterprise, Texas. Damage consisted of a travel trailer which was overturned and a roof torn off of a metal barn along County Road 3168. In addition, trees were snapped along with large branches downed along County Road 3156.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLaneville-Trees reported down just east of Laneville near FM Road 2496 at County Road 3162, FM Road 2496 near FM Road 1798, and along County Road 3163.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLaneville-Several trees downed near FM Road 1798 and County Road 2174 near Laneville.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindLaneville-A tree was downed across FM Road 225 just north of Laneville. A vehicle struck the tree, but the driver was not injured.
March 2022Flash FloodLaneville-Several county roads in Southern Rusk County were flooded and closed.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLaneville-Numerous trees were downed blocking multiple roads in the Laneville community.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLaneville-A tree was blown down across FM 1798 in front of the Laneville ISD campus.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLaneville-A large tree was downed across FM. 225 in the Laneville area west northwest of Mount Enterprise, Texas.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLaneville-Small trees were downed in the town of Laneville, Texas. One large tree was blocking FM 1798 just west of town.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Oak Flat3.1 miles11
Freeneytown3.3 miles11
Anadarko4.6 miles11
Glenfawn4.8 miles11
McKnight5.3 miles13
Pone5.8 miles13
Sulphur Springs6.0 miles11
Minden6.3 miles12

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 LanevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6485542The 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 1339614. 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.

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.