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Lovelace, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76645. It stands on Parker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro West quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Lovelace within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

169 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Lovelace between 2008 and 2020, burning about 2,141 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service203
29 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service187
29 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4235
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5571 FM 934 FIRE
29 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 4135
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77 GRASS FIRE
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 35
26 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service172

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Mountain View3.2 miles15
Carls Corner3.2 miles15
Mayfield3.5 miles15
Itasca5.0 miles14
Hillsboro5.4 miles15
Osceola6.0 miles14
Woodbury6.1 miles15
Lakenon6.1 miles15

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 LovelaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104862187The 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 1340664. 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.