Gadston, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Biardstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. It stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle.

Gadston within Lamar 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 Charleston quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Gadston between 2005 and 2018, burning about 290 acres in total. 1 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY.19
6 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	46 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 552
29 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
15 August 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 198 W
31 July 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
24 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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
Broadway	2.8 miles	11
Slabtown	2.8 miles	8
Broadway Junction	2.9 miles	11
Frog Hop	3.3 miles	11
Kennemer Crossing	3.5 miles	8
Glory	4.4 miles	11
Howland	4.5 miles	11
Biardstown	5.9 miles	11

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 Q122569091

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 1357817. 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.