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Garden Valley, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75771. The Survey maps it on the Van Lake quadrangle.

Garden Valley within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Garden Valley between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,095 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 211
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVAN
18 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY #8
23 August 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1998Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith 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
Carroll3.6 miles13
Friendship4.2 miles13
Jamestown4.7 miles16
Hideaway5.1 miles15
Hide-A-Way Lake5.2 miles15
Mount Sylvan6.1 miles15
Lindale7.1 miles13
Wood Springs8.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034667. 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.