Galloway, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the De Berry-Deadwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75633. The Survey maps it on the Galloway quadrangle. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Galloway within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1945 USGS Socagee Bayou quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1983 USGS Galloway quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Logan quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Galloway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 639 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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 burning	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2
Smoking	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
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 524
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 471
3 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 463 (KJONES)
28 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6199
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.2 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6345

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola 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
Logan	2.5 miles	18
Old Center	6.4 miles	17
Deadwood	7.1 miles	17
Woods	9.3 miles	17
Antioch	10.8 miles	13
Shady Grove	11.3 miles	13
Centennial	12.3 miles	17
Hudson Mast	13.6 miles	13

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 Galloway	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5519171	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 2034889. 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.