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Gladstell, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77327. It lies near Red Gully. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle.

Gladstell within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Gladstell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,918 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 burning112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNA
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 392
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH GRASS FIRE
22 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS & WOODS
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Williams0.5 miles12
East River1.2 miles13
Snuff Ridge1.6 miles12
Grace1.7 miles12
Nimrod2.0 miles12
Bendetsen2.8 miles12
Grady3.9 miles12
Cleveland4.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122553355The 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 1383222. 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.