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Gibtown, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Perrin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76487. It stands on Elm Pool Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gibtown quadrangle.

Gibtown within Jack County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

68 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Gibtown between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,892 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use110 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceADVENT FIRE
5 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILKINS FIRE
24 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSILLY BURN BAN, CUTOFF WHEEL IS OK...
22 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service...IN THE SAME SPOT.
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 8-8-16
6 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jack County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gibtown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Texas Industries QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gibtown in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGibtown$2,000Emergency management reported a barn blown down and trees down east of Perrin in rural southeast Jack County.
June 2010Flash FloodGibtown-Flash flooding was reported along Highway 199 west of Farm-to-Market Road 920 about 5 miles west of Boonsville. There was also water near the roadway on Farm-to-Market Road 2210 near the town of Gibtown.
March 2002HailGibtown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jack 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
Westbrook2.7 miles8
Joplin4.9 miles8
Perrin6.4 miles8
Vineyard9.4 miles8
Wizard Wells11.7 miles8
Bartons Chapel15.4 miles8
Jacksboro17.0 miles9
Maryetta19.6 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122539620The 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 1378351. 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.