Liberty City, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75647. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore NW quadrangle. 2,721 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresLiberty City grew from 1,935 to 2,721 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 | 1,935 | |
| 2010 | 2,351 | +416 (+21%) |
| 2020 | 2,721 | +370 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1936 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1971 USGS Kilgore NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
477 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 477 fires within 5 miles of Liberty City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,041 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 37 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 burning | 319 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 2015 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6178 |
| 7 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3111 |
| 6 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty City in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Lightning | Liberty City | $20,000 | Three oilfield service tanks exploded following a lightning strike. The tanks were located along FM 1252 east of Liberty City, Texas. One tank was struck which caused the other two to blow up. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty City | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty City | - | Measured 64 mph wind gust from a personal weather station just north of Interstate 20 near Liberty City. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Liberty City | - | Golf ball size hail fell just southeast of Liberty City. |
| February 2020 | Flash Flood | Liberty City | - | State Highway 135 was closed due to flooding from Rocky Creek. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Liberty City | - | Highway 135 near Liberty City was flooded. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty City | - | A large tree fell across a home and roadway on Sypert Street. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty City | - | Several trees were blown down on Wilkins Road. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Liberty City | - | Widespread flooding was reported throughout the city of Kilgore in southern Gregg County. High water from Turkey Creek forced the evacuation of homes along Sceyne Road, Horseshoe Street, and Dwain Street. Trees and power lines were downed throughout the city. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Liberty City | - | Hail was reported just northeast of Liberty City at the Southern Hills Golf Club. |
| March 2014 | Hail | Liberty City | - | Hail reported at the Southern Hills Golf Club. |
| April 2014 | Flash Flood | Liberty City | - | Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in the closure of Wilkins Road near Rocky Creek. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty City | - | A large tree was downed in Liberty City, Texas. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty City | - | A tree was down in Liberty City, Texas. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty City | - | Trees downed along Hwy. 1252. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Liberty City | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gladewater Park | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Kilgore | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Clarksville City | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Gladewater | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Kinsloe | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Danville | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| White Oak | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rolling Meadows | 7.6 miles | 16 |
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 Liberty City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2483393 | 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 1339886. 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.
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.






