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Gallatin, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rusk census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75764. It stands on Little Turnpike Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville East quadrangle. 321 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Gallatin within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Gallatin fell from 419 to 321 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010419
2020321-98 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Gallatin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,479 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 burning215
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
8 September 2017Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1416
8 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR1418
8 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1614
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7 MILE HILL
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service204 @ 110
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 22
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service110 @ 204

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Gallatin: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Citizens State BankIronUnknown
Hudson Pit & PlantIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallatin in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 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
April 2000Thunderstorm WindGallatin$10,000Numerous trees down in town including one through the roof a local church.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGallatin-Multiple trees and power lines were downed throughout Cherokee County.
January 2012HailGallatin-Dime size hail reported in Gallatin, Texas.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindGallatin-Several trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGallatin-Trees downed on Cnty Rd 1313.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindGallatin-Trees down across Hwy 22.
April 2011HailGallatin-no account filed
December 2002HailGallatin-no account filed
April 2000HailGallatin-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindGallatin-no account filed
May 1997HailGallatin-no account filed
May 1997HailGallatin-no account filed
October 1997HailGallatin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Elm Grove2.7 miles11
Turney2.9 miles12
Ponta3.7 miles11
Dialville5.1 miles11
Craft5.1 miles12
Delmer5.9 miles11
Stryker Creek Junction6.1 miles11
Rusk6.6 miles11

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 GallatinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980889The 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 1336348. 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.