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Lone Grove, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78607. It stands on Reed Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lone Grove quadrangle.

Lone Grove within Llano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Lone Grove between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,857 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDIAN BEND
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service217
18 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use422 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKHART MOUNTAIN
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 216 BRUSH FIRE
27 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHANNAS RANCH
15 July 2005Debris and open burning800 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMULTIPLE FIRES
30 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined586 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLONE GROVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Lone Grove: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Iron, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Heath MineGold, Vanadium, Bismuth, VermiculitePast ProducerGold
Olive Mine ProspectManganeseOccurrence
QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Talc OccurrenceTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc
Dixie Graphite MineGraphitePast ProducerGraphite
Graphite MineGraphitePast ProducerGraphite
Llano Pit & PlantVermiculiteProducer
Miller MountainIronOccurrence
Olive MineIronPast Producer1892
Vermiculite OccurrenceVermiculiteOccurrenceResidual

Every working recorded in Llano County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Grove in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLone Grove$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that blew down several trees. This storm also produced quarter size hail.
June 2016Flash FloodLone Grove-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several county roads.
May 2013HailLone Grove-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail and wind gusts that blew down several trees.
October 2011Flash FloodLone Grove-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding and closed RM2241 outside Llano.

Every storm recorded in Llano 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
Stolz2.6 miles16
Bluffton4.5 miles18
Golden Beach5.6 miles18
Llano6.4 miles17
Baby Head (historical)6.6 miles17
Buchanan Lake Village7.2 miles18
Tow7.3 miles18
Buchanan Dam9.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380104. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.