Lawsonville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mount Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75946. It stands on Hodge Branch. The Survey maps it on the Caledonia quadrangle.

Lawsonville within Rusk County

On record in Lawsonville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Concord Schoollisted 2024 · 0.2 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Mount Enterprise quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Lawsonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,459 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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	117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 506
5 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 478
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RENEE ELLIOTT
28 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PERRY STONE
26 September 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
26 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBERT WILLIAMS
25 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 565

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Concord	1.5 miles	11
Bryce	3.9 miles	11
Caledonia	4.0 miles	11
Mount Enterprise	4.4 miles	11
Arlam	5.4 miles	11
Minden	7.8 miles	12
Brachfield	8.0 miles	12
Oak Flat	8.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380066. 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.