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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.

Liberty City within Gregg County

Population over time

3 figures

Liberty 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,935
20102,351+416 (+21%)
20202,721+370 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

477 since 1992

Regional 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 burning319
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism37
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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 2015Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6178
7 September 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3111
6 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011LightningLiberty City$20,000Three 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 1996Thunderstorm WindLiberty City$1,000no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLiberty City-Measured 64 mph wind gust from a personal weather station just north of Interstate 20 near Liberty City.
April 2023HailLiberty City-Golf ball size hail fell just southeast of Liberty City.
February 2020Flash FloodLiberty City-State Highway 135 was closed due to flooding from Rocky Creek.
May 2019Flash FloodLiberty City-Highway 135 near Liberty City was flooded.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindLiberty City-A large tree fell across a home and roadway on Sypert Street.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindLiberty City-Several trees were blown down on Wilkins Road.
April 2016Flash FloodLiberty 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 2014HailLiberty City-Hail was reported just northeast of Liberty City at the Southern Hills Golf Club.
March 2014HailLiberty City-Hail reported at the Southern Hills Golf Club.
April 2014Flash FloodLiberty City-Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in the closure of Wilkins Road near Rocky Creek.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindLiberty City-A large tree was downed in Liberty City, Texas.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLiberty City-A tree was down in Liberty City, Texas.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLiberty City-Trees downed along Hwy. 1252.
March 2010HailLiberty City-no account filed
March 2001HailLiberty City-no account filed
January 1999HailLiberty City-no account filed
May 1998HailLiberty City-no account filed
May 1998HailLiberty City-no account filed
April 1998HailLiberty City-no account filed
April 1996HailLiberty City-no account filed
March 1996HailLiberty City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gregg 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
Gladewater Park4.8 miles12
Kilgore5.6 miles15
Clarksville City6.3 miles12
Gladewater6.3 miles12
Kinsloe6.6 miles16
Danville7.1 miles16
White Oak7.3 miles13
Rolling Meadows7.6 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 Liberty CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2483393The 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.