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Forest Glade, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mexia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76667. The Survey maps it on the Tehuacana quadrangle.

Forest Glade within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

255 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Forest Glade between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,817 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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 burning130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 84 & FM 80
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1365 & LCR 490
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLCR 492
30 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 451 FM 1365
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20201591

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Glade in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2008Thunderstorm WindForest Glade$125,000Significant damage occurred to a house on Lake Mexia when a large tree was uprooted and fell on the house. Trees fell onto a shed as well.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindForest Glade-Mexia County Airport reported a peak wind of 61 mph.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindForest Glade-The Automated Weather Observation System at the Limestone County Airport measured a wind gust of 60 MPH.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindForest Glade-Wind gusts up to 60 MPH were reported flowing into a storm west of Mexia.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindForest Glade-Large limbs were blown into roadways west of Mexia.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Springfield2.9 miles8
Shiloh3.8 miles8
Mexia4.0 miles8
Doyle4.0 miles8
Holden4.2 miles8
Fort Parker4.8 miles8
Point Enterprise5.5 miles8
Thelma5.8 miles8

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 Forest GladeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5468868The 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 1357557. 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.

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.