Lefman, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Boling-Newgulf census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77488. The Survey maps it on the Wharton quadrangle.

Lefman within Wharton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Wharton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:100000

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 Lefman: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Bay Prairie Aggregates	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wharton 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
Lane City	3.6 miles	9
Dinsmore	3.8 miles	10
Burr	4.0 miles	10
Wharton	4.2 miles	10
Iago	4.9 miles	10
Mackay	5.0 miles	9
Boling	5.9 miles	10
Cane Junction	6.8 miles	10

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 Q122560818

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 1380074. 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.

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.