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Lund, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northeast Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78621. The Survey maps it on the Coupland quadrangle.

Lund within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Lund between 1992 and 2016, burning about 425 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
29 August 1992Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC.R. 463 FIRE
12 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2011Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOUISE STREET FIRE
3 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 May 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 May 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lund: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
Standard Pit & PlantClayPast Producer
Weaver PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lund in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
December 2022FloodLund-Brief heavy rain produced minor flooding northwest of Elgin. A low water crossing in the 13300 block of County Line road filled with water.

Every storm 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
Carlson3.3 miles17
Manda3.8 miles17
New Sweden6.2 miles17
Littig6.6 miles16
Cele7.1 miles17
New Katy8.0 miles17
Manor9.6 miles17
Pflugerville12.1 miles17

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 LundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710985The 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 1361976. 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.