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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.

Grays Prairie within Kaufman County

Population over time

2 figures

Grays 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.

YearPeople Change
2000296
2020325+29 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

111 since 2005

Regional 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-409
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-404
4 September 2011Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTIAL AID
26 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 155
21 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4077
1 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR155
28 August 2013Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-165

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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
Cottonwood2.1 miles9
Scurry3.6 miles11
Lively4.5 miles10
Oak Grove4.6 miles10
Jiba4.9 miles10
Peeltown4.9 miles9
Stubbs5.5 miles10
Rosser5.5 miles9

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 PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3321803The 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.