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Lone Oak, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Deport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75435. The Survey maps it on the Cunningham quadrangle.

Lone Oak within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

73 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Lone Oak between 1999 and 2019, burning about 773 acres in total. 1 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution21 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 542
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 271N FIRE 9/28
21 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 615
21 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 271N FIRE 9/16
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEPORT MA GRASS FIRE 9/10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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
Deport2.8 miles8
Milton3.2 miles8
Minter3.7 miles8
Cunningham4.4 miles8
Clardy6.3 miles8
Rock Ford6.6 miles8
Hoover6.9 miles8
Taylortown6.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380107. 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.