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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Laneville quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
98 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 57 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Natural | 73 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6303 |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RITCHEY MULHOLLE |
| 24 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OCAR JOHNSON |
| 18 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOW |
| 17 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14076 CR 417 S |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Glenfawn | $1,000,000 | This 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 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Glenfawn | $80,000 | An 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenfawn | - | Tree downed at the intersection of Highway 84 and FM Road 225. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Glenfawn | - | Half dollar size hail fell in the Glenfawn community. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Glenfawn | - | Nickel to quarter size hail fell at a Plant Nursery north of Cushing off of Highway 84. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenfawn | - | A small tree was blown down on Highway 84 just west of FM 225. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenfawn | - | Numerous trees were downed along County Road 4261 in Southern Rusk County. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenfawn | - | Numerous trees were downed in the southern portion of Rusk County east of Reklaw, Texas. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anadarko | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Freeneytown | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Valley Grove | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Fairview | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Zion Grove | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Laneville | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Sulphur Springs | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Flat | 5.3 miles | 11 |
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 Glenfawn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q116371227 | 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 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.







