BlockGlen Flora, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Bernard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77443. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glen Flora quadrangle. It stands 118 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Glen Flora quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Glen Flora between 2008 and 2009, burning about 163 acres in total. 1 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 | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2009 | Natural | 83 acres | Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge | RENZ FOOD PLOT FIRE |
| 22 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 5900 FM 1161 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Flora in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Flora | $25,000 | 2 large trees down on FM 960 with one tree striking car. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Flora | $15,000 | Trees and power lines down, along with damaged barns, in the the towns of Eygpt, Glen Flora, Hungerford, and Wharton. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Flora | $15,000 | Barn roof blown off and powerpoles blown down. |
| August 1996 | Hail | Glen Flora | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Glen Flora | - | Penny sized hail was reported at the Wharton County Fairgrounds. |
| March 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Glen Flora | - | A funnel cloud was sighted off of SH 59 and FM 102. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Glen Flora | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sorrelle | 1.9 miles | 9 | |
| Dorman | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Egypt | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Wharton | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Sand Ridge | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Mackay | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hungerford | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Pierce | 7.5 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 Glen Flora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5567754 | 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 1358052. 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.
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.