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Lively, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kaufman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75143. The Survey maps it on the Grays Prairie quadrangle. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Lively within Kaufman 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.

Fires near this place

157 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Lively between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,410 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-409
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-404
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-398
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution440 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-391
26 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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
Stubbs1.9 miles10
Peeltown3.1 miles9
Styx3.2 miles9
Grays Prairie4.5 miles10
Tolosa5.2 miles12
Cottonwood5.3 miles9
Kemp5.4 miles13
Jiba7.7 miles10

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 LivelyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076526The 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 1378591. 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.