Glass, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Glen Rose census division. It stands on Ice Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glen Rose West quadrangle.

Glass within Somervell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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.

1889 USGS Granbury quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Glen Rose West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Glass between 2005 and 2015, burning about 667 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 August 2009	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009078
16 May 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 May 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 April 2009	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009037
29 April 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 April 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 February 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORTH BRANCH - 37
30 October 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Somervell 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
Glen Rose	5.3 miles	15
Seven Knobs	5.4 miles	17
Rainbow	8.3 miles	19
Nemo	10.9 miles	19
Georges Creek	12.7 miles	19

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 Glass	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1529748	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 1336567. 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.