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Glory, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Biardstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. The Survey maps it on the Biardstown quadrangle.

Glory within Lamar 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

39 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Glory between 2006 and 2017, burning about 585 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
6 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH/GRASS FIRE
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use46 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 552
4 August 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
29 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
13 August 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glory: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glory in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Thunderstorm WindGlory$15,000A public report indicated a mobile home missing part of its roof on County Road 1497 along with minor tree. The single family home next door sustained shingle and decking damage.

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Frog Hop1.6 miles11
Biardstown1.8 miles11
Broadway2.0 miles11
Broadway Junction2.8 miles11
Rockwell4.0 miles11
Slabtown4.3 miles8
Gadston4.4 miles8
Atlas4.8 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 GloryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18344965The 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 1358068. 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.