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Garland, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the De Kalb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75559. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle.

Garland within Bowie County

On record in Garland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

292 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Garland between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,442 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 29 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 burning197
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use16
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1994Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service528
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARLAND
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDELL
5 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK GROVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garland in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
December 2015Tornado (EF0)Garland$15,000An NWS Storm Survey team concluded that storm damage west of Dekalb Texas in far western Bowie County was consistent with that of a weak EF-0 tornado. This tornado snapped and uprooted several trees along its short path. The tornado lifted the roof off a mobile home along CR 4251 before moving north and lifting near CR 3306.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGarland-Three large trees were uprooted along County Road 3213, snapping the power lines on private property. Many tree limbs were also snapped off of trees in the vicinity.
October 2009Flash FloodGarland-Water was covering Hwy. 259 south and west and Central MLK.
May 2009Flash FloodGarland-Several roads remain underwater and closed in Dekalb, Simms and Moss SPrings, Texas.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGarland-A tree was downed on Hwy. 82 west of De Kalb, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Oak Grove1.7 miles9
De Kalb2.9 miles10
Hodgson3.2 miles11
Hubbard3.8 miles11
New Hope5.4 miles11
Spring Hill6.1 miles9
Tuckers Corner6.5 miles11
College Hill7.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379825. 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.