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Lannius, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dodd City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75438. It stands on Burnett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dodd City quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Lannius within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

132 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Lannius between 2005 and 2019, burning about 3,632 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. 1743 FIRE
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWLF HWY 82@ CR 2935
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 82
14 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AIDE
14 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 56 @ CR 2935
12 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARRY HAMMET
7 August 2016Debris and open burning45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLANNIUS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lannius in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLannius$30,000Emergency management reported trees uprooted and a barn destroyed at the Old Brewer Dairy Farm about 6 miles north-northeast of Dodd City, TX.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLannius$15,000Emergency management reported a tree down on the roof of a manufactured home approximately 9 miles east-southeast of Bryson, TX.
May 2015Flash FloodLannius-Amateur radio reported that 6 to 8 inches of water covered U.S. Highway 82 in central Fannin County.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Hilger2.4 miles6
Spring Hill2.4 miles6
Dodd City2.5 miles6
Pettigrew3.2 miles6
Brotherton3.6 miles6
Burnett3.9 miles6
Windom4.2 miles12
Shady Grove4.9 miles6

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 LanniusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q106670558The 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 1360947. 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.