Lyday Crossing, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Honey Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75449. It stands on Baker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ladonia quadrangle.

Lyday Crossing within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Ladonia quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

110 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Lyday Crossing between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,127 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROL BURN HWY 34
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE/TIRES ON FIRE
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 64 & CR 3400
28 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE/POS.STRUCTURES
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dial	2.3 miles	9
Bagby	2.6 miles	8
Pleasant Grove	2.7 miles	8
Bug Tussle	3.8 miles	8
Ladonia	4.5 miles	8
Oak Ridge	5.1 miles	8
Flat Prairie (historical)	5.3 miles	8
Silver City	6.7 miles	8

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 Q122544283

The 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 1382210. 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.