Arp, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Troup-Arp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75750. The Survey maps it on the Troup East quadrangle. 892 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArp fell from 970 to 892 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 970 | |
| 2020 | 892 | -78 (-8%) |
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.
- 1937 USGS Troupe quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Troup quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1973 USGS Troup East quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
253 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Arp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,082 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 15 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 | 146 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 577 |
| 30 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 573 |
| 27 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 2164 FIRE |
| 26 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arp in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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 2007 | Lightning | Arp | $75,000 | Lightning resulted in a house fire on County Rd. 246. There were no report of injuries. |
| February 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Arp | $30,000 | A tornado briefly moved along a 1 mile track northeast of Arp, Texas along a path approximately 300 yards wide. The tornado destroyed a barn and uprooted many large trees. Others were snapped off. Power lines also sparked grass fires in a pasture one mile east of the barn. |
| January 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arp | $25,000 | Bird pens, fences and 40 to 50 large trees were blown down by high winds. An emu was also killed during the storm. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arp | - | Trees and power lines were downed over Eastern Smith County. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Arp | - | Golfball size hail fell in Arp. |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arp | - | Numerous trees were blown down in the southeast part of Smith County. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Arp | - | Quarter size hail fell in Arp. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arp | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Arp. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Arp | - | County Road 294 between Highway 135 and County Road 258 just southeast of Arp was washed out. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Arp | - | County Road 294 between County Roads 299 and 2101 just northwest of Arp was washed out. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Arp | - | Nickel size hail was reported just north of Hwy. 64 east of the Lake Tyler bridge. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arp | - | Trees were downed in the southeast part of Smith County from Whitehouse, to near the Arp community. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arp | - | Trees were reported downed in Arp, Texas. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arp | - | Trees were downed in the Arp community. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Arp | - | Six to eight inches of water on Hwy 64 east and north of town. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Arp | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sinclair City | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Omen | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Salem | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Wright City | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Troup | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Blackjack | 6.5 miles | 16 | |
| New Chapel Hill | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Douglas | 8.7 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 Arp | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977081 | 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 1329695. 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.






