Lewisville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hempstead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. It stands on Lewisville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hempstead quadrangle.

Lewisville within Waller 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Lewisville between 1996 and 2017, burning about 110 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
27 August 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ SCHOOL RD.
22 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
7 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE
6 July 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ SCHOOL RD
3 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ OILFIELD
12 July 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ILEGAL BURNING
9 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 June 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELLVILLE/ NEWSOME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller County

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 Lewisville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

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
Hempstead	2.7 miles	10
Saint Paul	2.9 miles	8
Pine Island	4.1 miles	10
Second Corinth	5.1 miles	8
Prairie View	6.9 miles	15
Rock Island	7.2 miles	8
Howth	7.4 miles	8
Rolling Hills	8.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378581. 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.