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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.

Arp within Smith County

Population over time

2 figures

Arp 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.

YearPeople Change
2010970
2020892-78 (-8%)

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

253 since 1992

Regional 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 burning146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 577
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 573
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2164 FIRE
26 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1999Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 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 Smith County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2007LightningArp$75,000Lightning resulted in a house fire on County Rd. 246. There were no report of injuries.
February 2008Tornado (EF1)Arp$30,000A 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 1995Thunderstorm WindArp$25,000Bird pens, fences and 40 to 50 large trees were blown down by high winds. An emu was also killed during the storm.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindArp-Trees and power lines were downed over Eastern Smith County.
April 2023HailArp-Golfball size hail fell in Arp.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindArp-Numerous trees were blown down in the southeast part of Smith County.
May 2019HailArp-Quarter size hail fell in Arp.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindArp-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Arp.
April 2016Flash FloodArp-County Road 294 between Highway 135 and County Road 258 just southeast of Arp was washed out.
April 2016Flash FloodArp-County Road 294 between County Roads 299 and 2101 just northwest of Arp was washed out.
June 2015HailArp-Nickel size hail was reported just north of Hwy. 64 east of the Lake Tyler bridge.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindArp-Trees were downed in the southeast part of Smith County from Whitehouse, to near the Arp community.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindArp-Trees were reported downed in Arp, Texas.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindArp-Trees were downed in the Arp community.
July 2007Flash FloodArp-Six to eight inches of water on Hwy 64 east and north of town.
April 1996HailArp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Sinclair City2.2 miles15
Omen2.5 miles15
Salem4.0 miles15
Wright City4.2 miles13
Troup6.5 miles15
Blackjack6.5 miles16
New Chapel Hill8.2 miles16
Douglas8.7 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 ArpAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977081The 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.