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Gary, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gary City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75643. It stands on Daniels Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Gary quadrangle. 335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Gary within Panola County

Population over time

2 figures

Gary grew from 311 to 335 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010311
2020335+24 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Gary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 528
28 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 168
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 578
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service849 C.R. 122
16 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 126
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 542
14 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 251

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gary in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2011LightningGary$30,000Lightning struck a home in Gary resulting in a fire.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindGary$20,000Roof blown off a home in Gary City.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindGary$20,000Skywarn Spotter reported several chicken houses were damaged or destroyed.
April 2021HailGary-Half dollar size hail fell in the Gary City community.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGary-Several large tree branches were blown down onto roadways near Gary City, but were cleared away by residents and drivers.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGary-Several trees were downed in Gary City.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGary-A large tree was blown down along FM 999 near the Gary City community.
April 2017HailGary-Quarter size hail fell in Gary City.
April 2015HailGary-Quarter size hail was reported in Gary, Texas.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindGary-A tree was uprooted and downed in Gary City, Texas.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGary-Trees were downed in and around Gary City.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindGary-Trees were downed near Hwy. 1970 and the Shelby County Texas line.
December 2009Tornado (EF2)Gary-This tornado was a continuation from northern Shelby, County, near Timpson, Texas. This tornado continued into southern Panola, County where it downed and snapped numerous trees.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGary-Several large to medium size trees down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGary-Several large trees down.
June 2011HailGary-no account filed
March 2010HailGary-no account filed
March 2006HailGary-no account filed
April 2005HailGary-no account filed
December 2003HailGary-no account filed
May 1997Flash FloodGary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
Daniels2.6 miles13
Buncome3.1 miles13
Shady Grove4.3 miles13
Pleasant Ridge5.6 miles13
Woods6.7 miles17
Clayton7.3 miles13
Antioch7.3 miles13
Dotson8.6 miles12

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 GaryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981641The 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 1388214. 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.