Gladewater Park, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gladewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75647. The Survey maps it on the Gladewater quadrangle. It stands 354 feet above sea level.

Gladewater Park within Gregg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Gladewater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

451 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 451 fires within 5 miles of Gladewater Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,769 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 41 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 burning	215
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	111
Arson/incendiarism	41
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Power generation/transmission/distribution	22
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	600 S. LOOP 485
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6178
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PINE 15-318
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2685 BEFORE GLADEWATER CITY LIMITS
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOCUST RD.
8 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 2013	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
7 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 563

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg 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
Gladewater	2.5 miles	12
Clarksville City	4.1 miles	12
Liberty City	4.8 miles	15
Warren City	5.2 miles	12
White Oak	6.2 miles	13
Shiloh	7.4 miles	13
Teneryville	9.1 miles	13
Kinsloe	9.7 miles	16

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 Gladewater Park	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076492	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 1336559. 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.