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Tanglewood, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lexington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78947. The Survey maps it on the Tanglewood quadrangle.

Tanglewood within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Tanglewood between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,196 acres in total. 3 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 burning32
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 414 GRASS FIRE
26 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2015Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRUCTURE/GRASS FIRE
17 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 414 CONTROLLED BURN
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY/GRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID LEXINGTON VFD
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCALLED IN GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Tanglewood: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Colvin Sandstone DepositTitaniumUnknown
Colvin Sandstone DepositZirconiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tanglewood in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 flash 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
April 2009HailTanglewood$20,000A resident reported nickel size hail which damaged a pickup truck.
March 2018HailTanglewood-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at the Tanglewood Christian Camp.
March 2012Flash FloodTanglewood-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several low water crossings in Lee County.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Pleasant Grove (historical)2.1 miles9
Hicks3.0 miles8
Lexington5.6 miles15
Leo9.1 miles9
Doak Springs9.6 miles9
Old Dime Box10.6 miles9
Adina11.2 miles15
Blue11.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1369580. 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.