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Addison, Texas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northeast Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75001. It stands on Spanky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle. 16,661 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Addison within Dallas County

Population over time

2 figures

Addison grew from 13,056 to 16,661 between 2010 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
201013,056
202016,661+3,605 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

60 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Addison between 2005 and 2017, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOREST
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTFORD
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEMERALD
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19001-19099 DALLAS PKWY
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4726-4750 HAVERWOOD
6 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11140 RUSSWOOD
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSLEEPY LN
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSSER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Addison in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 14 hail, 13 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAddison$50,000The Westridge Apartments suffered wind damage. One unit destroyed, five had major damage, andthree had minor damage.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAddison$25,000Damage occurred to several carports and a 1 foot diameter tree was blown down near Addison. In Rowlett, a few trees were downed and some roofs lost shingles.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAddison$25,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindAddison$18,000Minor roof damage was reported to several buildings in town and at the Addison Airport.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindAddison$10,000A photograph on Twitter indicated a cell phone tower bent over near the intersection of Belt Line Rd and Midway Dr in the city of Addison, TX.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAddison$8,000Peak winds of 60 mph were estimated 3 miles east of Addison. Large trees limbs were down.
April 2026HailAddison-Report of 0.75 inch hail from mPING.
April 2023HailAddison-A public report indicated quarter sized hail in Addison.
March 2022HailAddison-A public report indicated dime sized hail about 2 miles southeast of Addison, TX.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindAddison-A 61 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet site in north Dallas.
August 2020HailAddison-A public report indicated dime to nickel sized hail near the intersection of Dallas North Tollway and Verde Valley Lane.
August 2020HailAddison-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail near the intersection of Valley View Lane and Alpha Road in the city of Farmers Branch, TX.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindAddison-Spotters report through amateur radio an estimated 65 MPH wind gust along Dallas North Tollway and Belt Line Road.
May 2012HailAddison-Hail up to the size of quarters was reported in the Brookhaven area of North Dallas.
May 2011HailAddison-Quarter sized hail fell in Addison.
March 2009HailAddison-Dime to Penny size hail was reported at Belt Line Road and Midway Road.
April 2007Flash FloodAddison-Street flooding was reported in Addison.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAddison-One foot diameter trees blown down near the Addison Airport.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAddison-Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1994HailAddison-Golf ball-size hail was reported near the intersection of Highway 75 and Interstate 635.
May 2012HailAddison-no account filed
May 2011HailAddison-no account filed
June 2005HailAddison-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAddison-no account filed
May 2001HailAddison-no account filed
October 1996HailAddison-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindAddison-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindAddison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Inwood2.2 miles24
Carrollton3.3 miles27
Farmers Branch4.3 miles27
Meaders5.2 miles24
Bouchard5.3 miles24
Richardson5.4 miles20
Trinity Mills5.4 miles27
Gifford5.5 miles24

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 AddisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q353089The 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 1329223. 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.