Lone Star, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. The Survey maps it on the Terrell South quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Lone Star within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Kaufman quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Terrell South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

251 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Lone Star between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,368 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Smoking	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 175
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 September 2013	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	5676 CHRYL LANE
6 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FAIR GROUNDS
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PYLE HILL
4 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANGELINA
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	JEFFERSON
4 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PHILLIPS CIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Post Oak Bend City	1.9 miles	10
Post Oak Bend	2.4 miles	10
Gastonia	3.2 miles	11
Kaufman	3.6 miles	10
Talty	4.1 miles	12
Cartwright	4.5 miles	10
Wilson	4.6 miles	10
Oak Ridge	4.9 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 Lone Star	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076527	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 2034703. 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.