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Lincoln Park, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pilot Point-Aubrey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75068. It stands on Running Branch. The Survey maps it on the Little Elm quadrangle. 308 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Lincoln Park within Denton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

96 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Park between 2006 and 2019, burning about 434 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
29 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGBEE
28 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-0001492
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL RD.
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRHODES ROAD
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBREWER RD.
12 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARRIETTA
1 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 377

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln Park: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Don Davidson's Sand Pit OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harbert,Hobson,Sewell,AllisonClayProducer
Herbert PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Denton 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
Providence1.0 miles10
New Hope (historical)1.2 miles10
Cross Roads1.7 miles11
Navo2.3 miles10
Oak Point2.4 miles10
Krugerville4.2 miles7
Little Elm4.5 miles10
Shady Shores4.9 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on Lincoln ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978435The 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 1388579. 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.