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Gary, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77316. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Keenan quadrangle.

Gary within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Gary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 815 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
8 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 199
24 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 37
21 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2004Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 24
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 403
8 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2001Arson/incendiarism60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 32
5 August 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Bobville3.4 miles11
Peel Junction3.7 miles14
Dobbin3.8 miles11
Keenan4.2 miles12
Montgomery4.4 miles14
Karen5.0 miles12
Honea6.6 miles13
Mostyn7.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378345. 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.