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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grays Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
157 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 70 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-409 |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-404 |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-398 |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 440 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-391 |
| 26 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stubbs | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Peeltown | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Styx | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Grays Prairie | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Tolosa | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Cottonwood | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Kemp | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Jiba | 7.7 miles | 10 |
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 Lively | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22076526 | 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 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.



