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Appleby, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75965. The Survey maps it on the Appleby quadrangle. 552 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Appleby within Nacogdoches County

On record in Appleby

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Appleby grew from 474 to 552 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
2010474
2020552+78 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Appleby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 918 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2

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 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 524
4 September 1998Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 133
18 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appleby in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2024Tornado (EF1)Appleby$75,000An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 110 mph touched down about 1.5 miles southeast of Appleby along County Road 260, where large tree branches were snapped. A path of minor tree damage continued as the tornado tracked to the northwest across the intersection of Appleby Sand Road and Cedar Bluff Road. As the tornado crossed Burt Drive between Village Drive and FM 941, the extent of tree damage increased, where multiple hardwood and softwood trees were snapped. Once the tornado crossed Highway 59 just southwest of Appleby, it appeared to had lifted briefly before touching back down on County Road 112 just west of FM 2864 where more trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then crossed CR 116 where it caused significant damage to very large trees, before tracking across the corner of CR 117 and CR 118 where it tore the roof off of a single family home, with additional damage noted to other nearby homes. Additional tree damage occurred as the tornado crossed CR 915 and Highway 204, before lifting near CR 814.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Appleby$5,000A brief touchdown was reported, damaging a portable building and blowing down some trees.
September 1997HailAppleby$3,000Damage to vehicles.
April 2025Flash FloodAppleby-Rushing water covered CR 2041 just south of Appleby.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Tree downed in Appleby.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Trees and power lines downed on County Road 2041.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Tree downed on Stoddard Drive.
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Appleby-An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 100 mph touched down about 8 miles to the north northeast of Nacogdoches near the Appleby community. Damage to trees was seen along FM Road 2864 along and north of County Road 106 where large trees were either uprooted or snapped at their trunks. From there, the tornado tracked to the northeast where additional damage was found near County Road 125 and County Road 127 just north of US Highway 59. The tornado caused some additional tree damage off Hidden Valley Drive just to the south and east of US Highway 59 before lifting shortly thereafter.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Observation recorded 60 mph wind gust at remote automatic weather station (RAWS) just north of Nacogdoches.
April 2023HailAppleby-Penny size hail fell in the Appleby community.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindAppleby-A large tree was blown down on CR 2041 near Appleby.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Power lines were blown down on County Road 2041 near Appleby.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Trees were blown down on homes on County Road 199 near Appleby.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Trees were blown down on County Road 2011 near Rolling Hills in Appleby.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindAppleby-A tree was blown onto a power line in the 9000 block of County Road 2609 in Appleby.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Numerous trees were downed across Nacogdoches County. Trees down on Burt Drive. Trees and power lines were downed on County Road 967. Trees and power lines down on County Road 2081, multiple trees down on County Road 2011, trees and power lines down on County Road 199, trees and power lines down on FM 2609, structural damage on County Road 199, structures damaged and trees down in the 600 block of Happyland Road. Chicken houses and a shop was damaged nearby as well.
April 2021HailAppleby-Nickel size hail fell in the Appleby community.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Several large trees were blown down on Appleby Sands Road between CR 2041 and CR 224 in Appleby.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindAppleby-Several trees were downed along Appleby Sand Road.
April 2020HailAppleby-Quarter size hail fell near the Appleby community.
September 2012Heavy RainAppleby-Local Mesonet station measured 8.24 inches of rainfall between 9 am on 29th of September and 403 am on the 30th of September with rain still falling at observation time.
May 2008HailAppleby-Hail fell near the community of Appleby, Texas.
February 1993HailAppleby-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind.
March 1998HailAppleby-no account filed
October 1996HailAppleby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Holly Springs2.9 miles11
North Redland3.4 miles12
Central Heights3.9 miles12
Mahl4.0 miles12
Redfield4.1 miles12
Pisgah4.4 miles12
Pleasant Hill4.6 miles11
Bonita Junction5.6 miles12

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 ApplebyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980124The 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 1351226. 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.