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.
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.
- Garland Community School Teacheragelisted 2002 · 0.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
292 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 197 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 September 1994 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 528 |
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARLAND |
| 6 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINDELL |
| 5 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OAK GROVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Garland | $15,000 | An 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garland | - | 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 2009 | Flash Flood | Garland | - | Water was covering Hwy. 259 south and west and Central MLK. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Garland | - | Several roads remain underwater and closed in Dekalb, Simms and Moss SPrings, Texas. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garland | - | A tree was downed on Hwy. 82 west of De Kalb, Texas. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| De Kalb | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Hodgson | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Hubbard | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| New Hope | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Hill | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Tuckers Corner | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| College Hill | 7.6 miles | 11 |
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.





