BlockLive Oak Resorts, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Whitney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76692. The Survey maps it on the Blanton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1927 USGS Blum quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Blanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
219 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Live Oak Resorts between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,033 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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 | 116 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 64 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HCR 1250 |
| 6 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PR 12565 |
| 4 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2604 & PR 120 |
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PR 120 |
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCRAC |
| 30 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 1221 |
| 3 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 933 |
| 25 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 933 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122540554 | 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 1340261. 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.