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Lena, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Grange West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78963. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle.

Lena within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Lena between 1992 and 2015, burning about 422 acres in total. 1 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1992Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 30
21 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWETJEN LANE FIRE
19 August 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM154 FIRE
14 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 63

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lena: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baroid Muldoon MineBentonitePast Producer
Henderson PitBentoniteProducerSedimentary
Henderson PitBentoniteProducer
Southern Clay Syler PitBentoniteProducer
Syler PitBentoniteProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Fayette 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
Marly0.9 miles11
West Point4.0 miles12
Prairie Valley4.8 miles11
Plum5.0 miles11
Muldoon5.2 miles11
O'Quinn5.5 miles10
Stellar5.6 miles11
Kirtley6.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380077. 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.