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Lebanon, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Whitney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76622. It stands on Tener Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smiths Bend quadrangle.

Lebanon within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

128 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,713 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 2200
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined175 acresTexas A & M Forest Service364 HCR 2200
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL GHOLSON
3 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMURPHY FIRE
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution958 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR RIDGE FIRE
28 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVID SNIPES
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM933
14 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service996 FM 2114

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Tyson1.8 miles15
Spivey Crossing3.2 miles16
Aquilla4.0 miles15
Prairie Valley5.5 miles16
Menlow7.1 miles15
Woodland Hills7.2 miles16
Vaughan8.8 miles14
Whitney10.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380071. 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.