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Glendale, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Glendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75862. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle.

Glendale within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,309 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 198
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 379
13 September 1995Natural18 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8078
10 September 1997Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1996Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2000Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 255
29 August 2012Natural502 acresLivingston AreaDADS CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
December 2012Thunderstorm WindGlendale$30,000Damage to roof of manufactured home and to a liquor store across the street.
May 1999HailGlendale$15,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGlendale$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds that downed trees near the intersection of SR 94 and FM 3188.
May 2024Flash FloodGlendale-Street flooding was reported along Hwy 94 near FM 3188.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlendale-Trees were downed on Ward Road near Highway 94.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Saron2.4 miles10
Mill Town5.5 miles12
Trinity6.3 miles12
Red Branch6.6 miles9
Friday6.7 miles10
Westville7.1 miles11
Chita7.3 miles9
Sebastopol7.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1358055. 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.