Gentry, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Canadian River Breaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79124. The Survey maps it on the Cliffside quadrangle. It stands 3,471 feet above sea level.

Gentry within Potter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1934 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Gentry between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,690 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	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
16 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIGHTFOOT
1 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ESCOBETO
8 August 2019	Natural	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MESQUITE THICKET
7 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KIRK
5 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHARMAN
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2381
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRICKPLANT
31 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBINSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bishop Hills	3.4 miles	11
Cliffside	3.8 miles	11
Soncy	7.9 miles	8
Boden	8.1 miles	9
Bushland	8.1 miles	7
Pleasant Valley	8.9 miles	11
Juilliard	9.8 miles	11
Amarillo	10.0 miles	8

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 Gentry	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076490	The 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 1379830. 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.