LaSalle, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Personville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76642. It stands on Sand Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fallon quadrangle.

LaSalle within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1920 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Fallon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of LaSalle between 1996 and 2020, burning about 850 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	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
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	82102
11 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	20191329
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8113
8 July 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LCR 800
4 July 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	178
30 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	125 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHILOH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of LaSalle: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Teague Pit	Kaolin	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Center	1.6 miles	8
Prairie Grove	2.6 miles	8
Fallon	3.4 miles	8
Lost Prairie	3.4 miles	7
Personville	4.6 miles	8
Doyle	5.4 miles	8
Shiloh	5.7 miles	8
Box Church	5.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380870. 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.