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Old Glory, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Aspermont North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79540. The Survey maps it on the Old Glory quadrangle. It stands 1,673 feet above sea level.

Old Glory within Stonewall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

44 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Old Glory between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,091 acres in total. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism1
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 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD GLORY1
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 380 E
6 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY1835/OLD GLORY
5 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIDDELL/CR 116
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRED BAITZ FIRE
22 August 2006Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIDDLE/CITATION FIRE
13 August 2012Natural200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePETERS-LOWACK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stonewall County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Old Glory: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Marcy Camp 17CopperOccurrence1854
Spitzer-1CopperOccurrence1974

Every working recorded in Stonewall County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Glory in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2004HailOld Glory$100,000A supercell thunderstorm developed west of town and moved slowly east producing a swath of hail up to and slightly larger than golfball size in and west of Old Glory.
April 2003HailOld Glory$30,000Baseball size hail struck and killed thirteen cattle.
May 1995HailOld Glory$20,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOld Glory$15,000A roof was blown off an old, unused gymnasium building. Time estimated by radar.
May 1998HailOld Glory$2,000no account filed
May 2025Flash FloodOld Glory-Slow moving and repeated rounds of thunderstorms in and around Old Glory brought an extended period of heavy rainfall. A report from mPing indicated water over the roadway along US Highway 380.
May 2025HailOld Glory-A report was received on mPing of half dollar size hail near Old Glory.
April 2007HailOld Glory-Postal workers at Old Glory reported pea to penny size hail that was accompanied by 50 mph wind gusts.
June 2004HailOld Glory-Citizen reported golfball size hail.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Old Glory-A storm chaser reported a tornado over open country.
March 1999HailOld Glory-Elevated convection behind a cold front caused thunderstorms...one of which produced early morning quarter-sized hail in Old Glory.
May 2004HailOld Glory-no account filed
May 2004HailOld Glory-no account filed
June 2002HailOld Glory-no account filed
May 1998HailOld Glory-no account filed
January 1998HailOld Glory-no account filed
March 1995HailOld Glory-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stonewall 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
Flat Top7.6 miles9
Sandlin7.8 miles9
Aspermont9.1 miles8
Two F Crossing12.2 miles7
Swenson14.6 miles6
Geneview14.7 miles7
Peacock18.6 miles6
Double Mountain18.7 miles6

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 Old GloryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7084098The 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 1364423. 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.