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Lanier, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75563. The Survey maps it on the Lanier quadrangle.

Lanier within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Lanier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42,066 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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 burning110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6179
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 348
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6174
7 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 379
6 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 182
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined41,050 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEAR CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Lanier: 15 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Stone. 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
Knight-Field DepositIron, StoneOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Bear CreekIronOccurrence
Bear Creek DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
DuncanIronOccurrence
Duncan DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Hagerty DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
HarrisIronOccurrence
Harris DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
John DavisIronOccurrence
John Davis DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanier in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 1994Thunderstorm WindLanier$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 2020HailLanier-Hail slightly larger than golf balls fell near the Lanier community south of Linden.
April 2018HailLanier-Golfball size hail fell several miles south of Linden.

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
Fairview0.8 miles11
Caves Spring2.6 miles11
Pruett3.1 miles11
Bear Creek4.1 miles11
Liberty5.3 miles11
Linden5.3 miles11
Sheffield6.4 miles11
Evans6.4 miles11

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 LanierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125156290The 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 1378558. 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.