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Los Lomas, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the George West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78368. The Survey maps it on the Dinero quadrangle.

Los Lomas within Live Oak County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

55 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Los Lomas between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,628 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
30 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use13 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 888 COUNTY LINE
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE 09
5 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD LAGARTO RD
16 August 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAVEL ROAD
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMATHIS PD
9 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE 06
5 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Service888 - BUC'S CAMP RD - MATHIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Los Lomas: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bomer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Lucas MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Mathis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Mcrae PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Porter PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Texas Hauling ContractorsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wright PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in Live Oak 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
Peace Valley Harbor0.7 miles12
Argenta3.1 miles11
Hideaway Hill3.4 miles12
Lagarto3.8 miles12
Mount Lucas4.6 miles12
Dinero7.3 miles12
Mikeska13.3 miles12
River Creek Acres13.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122553320The 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 1340612. 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.