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Lone Camp, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Palo Pinto-Santo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76484. The Survey maps it on the Lone Camp quadrangle.

Lone Camp within Palo Pinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

164 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Lone Camp between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,162 acres in total. 5 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 burning88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2

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
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRANCISCO PROPERTY
27 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN BEHIND STATION
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAIN FIRE
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. LAKEVIEW
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceATV FIRE
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLONE CAMP FIRE
11 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Camp in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLone Camp$100,000Several outbuildings and barns sustained damage in the Lone Oak area. Some barns lost their metal roofs.
April 2015Flash FloodLone Camp$10,000Flooding was reported on FM 4 from Lone Camp to Highway 281.
March 2016Flash FloodLone Camp$5,000Emergency management reported a high water rescue near the intersection of FM 4 and Lakeview Dr.
March 2016Flash FloodLone Camp$5,000Palo Pinto County Sheriff's Department reported high water rescues in Lone Camp, TX.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindLone Camp$1,000A National Weather Service employee reported minor roof damage and a few trees down in the city of Lone Camp, TX.
April 2016Flash FloodLone Camp-Low water crossings southwest of Lone Camp were flooded.
May 2011HailLone Camp-no account filed
March 1998HailLone Camp-no account filed
December 1997HailLone Camp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palo Pinto 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
Santo6.0 miles21
Palo Pinto6.3 miles18
Brazos7.9 miles20
Coalville7.9 miles16
Metcalf Gap9.4 miles16
New Salem10.0 miles20
Gordon Junction10.3 miles16
Gordon10.5 miles16

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 Q122564436The 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 1340364. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.