Grays Prairie, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kaufman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75158. The Survey maps it on the Grays Prairie quadrangle. 325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGrays Prairie grew from 296 to 325 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 296 | |
| 2020 | 325 | +29 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grays Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
111 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Grays Prairie between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,067 acres in total. 4 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 burning | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-409 |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-404 |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTIAL AID |
| 26 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 155 |
| 21 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4077 |
| 1 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR155 |
| 28 August 2013 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2013-165 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Grays Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3321803 | 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 1378379. 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.



