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Lenox, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marathon census division. It lies near Payne Draw. The Survey maps it on the Dugout Mountain quadrangle.

Lenox within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lenox between 2008 and 2015, burning about 656 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
17 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAISANO GRASS FIRE
23 April 2008Natural650 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST HWY 90 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster 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
Altuda6.2 miles10
Marathon7.4 miles12
Old Beekley Place8.2 miles12
Beatty Place9.4 miles10
Fourmile Crossing10.7 miles12
Edwards Place11.6 miles10
Mitchell Place11.7 miles12
Louis Granger Place12.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378578. 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.