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Gresham, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bullard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75762. The Survey maps it on the Bullard quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Gresham within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Gresham between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,068 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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 burning166
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC.R. 165
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG EDDY FIRE
25 September 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSON HEIGHTS GRASS FIRE
23 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIDGLEY CIR
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith 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 Gresham: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Whitehouse Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrence1927

Every working recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gresham in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1998Tornado (F2)Gresham$120,000HP Supercell developed along a quasi-stationary front and moved northeast. This Supercell produced a family of three tornadoes, numerous microbursts and giant hail. A meso was detected by dopplar radar with the HP supercell. In this supercell an F2 tornado was produced. As the supercell developed, massive mid level convergence occurred resulting in giant hail. The evolution continued resulting in a bow echo pattern where two additional weak tornadoes occurred in the northern comma heads In the first tornado, damage consisted of numerous snapped and fallen trees. Fifteen homes and three businesses were either moderately or severely damaged including roofs removed on two homes. Southwestern Bell phone truck heavily damaged from a fallen tree and a Ford Aerostar Van was crushed almost beyond recognition. Several telephone poles were tilted to a 45 degree angle.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindGresham$8,000A tree was downed on a house in the Gresham community south of Tyler or east of Noonday, Texas.
April 2026HailGresham-Hail ranging from pea to quarter size covered the ground just south of Tyler in the Gresham area.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGresham-A tree was blown down across both lanes of Old Palestine Road near the Gresham community.
May 2025HailGresham-Quarter size hail fell in the Gresham community.
April 2025Flash FloodGresham-The intersection of FM 2493 and FM 2813 was flooded.
March 2016Flash FloodGresham-Heavy flooding reported at CR. 165 and FM 2493.
March 2016Flash FloodGresham-Farm to Market 2813 and Highway 69 underwater and closed.
March 2016Flash FloodGresham-High water was reported on CR. 168 near Owens Elementary School.
November 2016Thunderstorm WindGresham-Several trees were snapped northwest of Flint near County Road 140 and Silver Leaf Drive.
March 2015Flash FloodGresham-FM 2868 was flooded and closed near the community of Flint, Texas.
February 2008HailGresham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Lee Spring1.7 miles14
Flint1.7 miles14
Noonday3.0 miles16
Copeland4.2 miles14
New Hope4.4 miles14
Galilee4.9 miles16
Antioch5.2 miles14
Pine Trail Estates6.1 miles16

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 GreshamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076499The 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 1378384. 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.