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Garwood, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Garwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77442. The Survey maps it on the Garwood quadrangle.

Garwood within Colorado County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Garwood in 2009, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2886 CR 475

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Garwood: 7 producers, 5 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Altair PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Arena PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Arena Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blue Roan Bend Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blue Roan Bend PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Plant No. 68 Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thorstenberg Arena PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Colorado County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garwood in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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
February 1998Thunderstorm WindGarwood$21,500Windows blown out at Garwood Elementary School. Several trees blown down along HWY 71.
March 2005HailGarwood$2,500no account filed
March 1997Flash FloodGarwood$2,000no account filed
June 2020Flash FloodGarwood-There was high water reported on FM 950 in Garwood.
July 2004Funnel CloudGarwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colorado 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
Eldridge2.5 miles9
Boedecker Junction2.8 miles9
Nada3.1 miles9
Matthews5.2 miles9
Gwinns Crossing (historical)7.4 miles10
Rayner Junction8.0 miles10
Lakeside8.7 miles10
Altair8.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1336419. 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.