BlockLynn Grove, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Navasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77868. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Courtney quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Navasota quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Courtney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
55 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Lynn Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | J. WIMBERLY FIRE |
| 30 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | J. WEAVER APARIES |
| 25 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14733 S SH6 |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 362 GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378624. 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.