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Garner, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76088. The Survey maps it on the Garner quadrangle. 397 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Garner within Parker 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.

Fires near this place

156 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Garner between 2005 and 2020, burning about 912 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Debris and open burning46
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9000 BLOCK MINERAL WELLS HIGHWAY
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service425 CLARK LAKE ROAD
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMINERAL WELLS HWY
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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 Garner: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
Mineral Wells Clay Products PitClayProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Parker County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garner in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 5 hail, 1 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
March 2016Thunderstorm WindGarner$5,000A public report stated that a roof was blown off of a house at the 700 block of Our lane.
May 1998HailGarner-Large hail was reported in Whitt.
May 2000HailGarner-no account filed
May 2000HailGarner-no account filed
May 1997HailGarner-no account filed
July 1995HailGarner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Parker 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
Cool2.4 miles18
Authon3.3 miles18
Preble3.8 miles18
Adell4.9 miles18
Lemley5.7 miles18
Millsap6.0 miles20
Fox6.0 miles18
Peaster6.8 miles17

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 GarnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3477762The 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 1378343. 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.