Glidden, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Columbus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78943. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Columbus quadrangle. 741 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 232 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGlidden grew from 661 to 741 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 661 | |
| 2020 | 741 | +80 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Glidden quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glidden in 2011, burning about 2 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROBERT HENDERSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Glidden: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helms Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Helms Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Horton and Horton Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Flint, Gravel | |
| Sprint Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Superior No. 4 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Superior Sand and Gravel Plant 4 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glidden in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Hail | Glidden | $40,000 | Golfball-sized hail in Glidden |
| May 2005 | Hail | Glidden | $12,000 | Golf ball size hail 5 miles west of Columbus. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Glidden | - | Quarter sized hail reported along Interstate 10 to the west of Columbus. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glidden | - | Tree limbs were downed along Interstate 10 to the west of Columbus. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Glidden | - | High rainfall rates with training thunderstorm cells produced street flooding in an around the town of Columbus. There were reports of flooding on numerous county roadways including Schobel Road, FM 2434, and Schulenburg Lane. Power lines were also reported down over Interstate 10 near Columbus. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Hillcrest | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Shaws Bend | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Alleyton | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Helms | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Borden | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Laban | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Atascosito Crossing (historical) | 7.7 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 Glidden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982073 | 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 1336597. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




