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Long Lake, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75801. The Survey maps it on the Long Lake quadrangle. It stands 236 feet above sea level.

Long Lake within Anderson 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.

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Long Lake between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,544 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 300
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 473
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceELK90084
3 September 2009Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINITY WEST RANCH
3 September 2009Natural8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 203
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 461
28 September 1992Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 281

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Long Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Blue Mountain QuarrySilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Lake in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2021FloodLong Lake-A public report indicated a downed tree and minor flooding near the intersection of Highway 79 and Highway 294.
April 2012HailLong Lake-Quarter sized hail was reported in Long Lake.
March 2010HailLong Lake-Quarter size hail was reported at the Highway 79 crossing of the Trinity River.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Tucker2.4 miles10
Lakeview Assembly5.1 miles10
Harmony7.5 miles12
Cronin8.9 miles10
Elkhart10.8 miles10
Palestine11.1 miles13
Massey Lake12.1 miles12
Tennessee Colony13.2 miles12

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 Long LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851448The 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 1361751. 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.