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Lost Creek, Texas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78746. It stands on Short Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Austin West quadrangle.

Lost Creek within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

74 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Lost Creek between 2005 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVILLAGE WEST
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTALLION
15 September 2008Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMMONS FORD ROAD
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEE CAVE
31 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBASIN LEDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis 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
Barton Creek1.5 miles25
West Lake Hills2.3 miles25
River Hills3.0 miles25
Rollingwood3.1 miles25
Greenshores3.4 miles25
Oak Hill4.2 miles18
Williamson4.9 miles18
Sunset Valley5.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867554. 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.