Lavon Beach Estates, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Farmersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75442. It stands on Pilot Grove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavon quadrangle. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Lavon Beach Estates within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1924 USGS Farmersville 3-c quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Farmersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Lavon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

124 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Lavon Beach Estates between 2005 and 2017, burning about 465 acres in total. 1 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 burning	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
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
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 966 AND COUNTY ROAD 487
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORTH BRANCH - 217
13 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
1 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 549 AND COUNTY ROAD 980
9 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	14834 CR 546
7 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY_ROAD_965_/_COUNTY_ROAD_488
6 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROLLED BURN
5 August 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	5710 BUSINESS 78 - 13069799

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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
New Mesquite	0.9 miles	11
Lavon Shores Estates	1.6 miles	11
Yucote Acres	1.8 miles	11
Pebble Beach Sunset Acres	2.1 miles	11
Culleoka	2.5 miles	10
Copeville	3.0 miles	11
Clear Lake	3.4 miles	11
Little Ridge	3.5 miles	11

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 Q22076516

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 1339725. 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.