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Lost Prairie, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Personville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76642. It stands on Gibson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Farrar quadrangle.

Lost Prairie within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Lost Prairie between 1996 and 2020, burning about 716 acres in total. None 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3

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 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2014Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW 4200 (SW 4180)
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9103
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service25061 FM 744
21 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service82102
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20191329
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8113

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 Lost Prairie: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin. 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
Teague PitKaolinPast Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lost Prairie in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLost Prairie-Tree damage was reported on Highway 164, FM 3371, and S FM 39 in Limestone County.
April 2018HailLost Prairie-A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail near the intersection of FM 3371 and CR 800.
June 2016Flash FloodLost Prairie-Limestone County Sheriff's Department reported water covering FM 39 south of Hwy 164.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Lost Prairie-A NWS Storm Survey determined an EF-0 tornado began approximately 1.5 miles southwest of Personville. This tornado had a path length of approximately 0.75 miles and an estimated width of 100 yards. Some tree damage occurred with this tornado and winds were estimated near 75 mph.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Personville2.1 miles8
Center2.9 miles8
LaSalle3.4 miles8
Fair Oaks3.5 miles7
Farrar5.6 miles7
Prairie Grove5.7 miles8
Fallon6.0 miles8
Box Church6.5 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034732. 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.