BlockLone Cedar, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Italy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76626. The Survey maps it on the Avalon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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
- 1965 USGS Avalon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
149 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Lone Cedar between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,294 acres in total. 2 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 | 83 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HANNAH MARCUM |
| 23 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Cedar in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Hail | Lone Cedar | $2,000 | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378599. 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.