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Glenfawn, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75760. The Survey maps it on the Laneville quadrangle.

Glenfawn within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Glenfawn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,446 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2013Natural73 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6303
6 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRITCHEY MULHOLLE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOCAR JOHNSON
18 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOW
17 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14076 CR 417 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenfawn in 8 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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
March 2022Tornado (EF2)Glenfawn$1,000,000This is a continuation of the Northwest Nacogdoches County EF-2 tornado. The tornado maintained its high end EF-1/low end EF-2 intensity as it moved through Southern and Eastern Rusk County, with estimated maximum winds near 125 mph. Upon departing FM 225 just inside the Southern Rusk County line, the tornado tracked northeast and crossed County Roads 3238 and 3227 before reaching Highway 84. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado's path through Highway 84, with the tornado tearing down a large metal electrical transmission tower off of County Road 3206 northeast of the Sulphur Springs community, while also ripping the roof off of a nearby single family home. The tornado continued northeast snapping and uprooting additional trees, while also damaging the roofs off of several homes as it crossed County Road 3167, FM 2496, County Roads 3155 and 3146. As the tornado crossed Highway 259 and County Road 317, it damaged or destroyed several metal buildings, while also destroying a single-wide mobile home. The tornado also destroyed another single-wide mobile home on FM 95 in the Minden community, while also significantly damaging a nearby single family home. The tornado then crossed FM 1798 and County Road 3125, snapping and uprooting additional trees before crossing FM 840. Here, several metal buildings were destroyed, with damage to roofs and walls on a couple of homes. The tornado crossed County Road 366 before finally lifting just east of County Road 364 about 10 miles east-southeast of Henderson. ||In Rusk County, around 50 structures were damaged. The total path length of this tornado from Southern Cherokee, Northwest Nacogdoches, and through Southern and Eastern Rusk Counties was 37.57 miles.
January 2020Tornado (EF1)Glenfawn$80,000An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 110 mph touched down along Highway 84 near the intersection of County Road 4234 west of Mount Enterprise, snapping and uprooting a few trees. The tornado continued eastward roughly along Highway 84, intensifying and snapping numerous trees in the Reagan Branch bottom, just west of the Farm to Market Road 225 intersection. It continued east-northeast snapping and uprooting trees as it crossed County Roads 3223, 3226, and 3206. Several farm outbuildings were tossed and completely destroyed along County Road 3206, with two residences sustaining roof damage, before the tornado lifted just northeast of the intersection of County Road 3206 and 3166.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenfawn-Tree downed at the intersection of Highway 84 and FM Road 225.
April 2021HailGlenfawn-Half dollar size hail fell in the Glenfawn community.
April 2020HailGlenfawn-Nickel to quarter size hail fell at a Plant Nursery north of Cushing off of Highway 84.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGlenfawn-A small tree was blown down on Highway 84 just west of FM 225.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindGlenfawn-Numerous trees were downed along County Road 4261 in Southern Rusk County.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGlenfawn-Numerous trees were downed in the southern portion of Rusk County east of Reklaw, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Anadarko1.4 miles11
Freeneytown2.7 miles11
Valley Grove3.5 miles11
Fairview4.1 miles11
Zion Grove4.8 miles11
Laneville4.8 miles11
Sulphur Springs5.0 miles11
Oak Flat5.3 miles11

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 GlenfawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116371227The 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 1378363. 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.