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Asherton, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Asherton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78827. The Survey maps it on the Asherton quadrangle. 722 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

Asherton within Dimmit County

On record in Asherton

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Asherton fell from 1,084 to 722 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
20101,084
2020722-362 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Asherton between 2006 and 2009, burning about 252 acres in total. None 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2007Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2008Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dimmit County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asherton in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAsherton$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and trees in the Asherton area.
April 1998HailAsherton$10,000no account filed
February 2024Thunderstorm WindAsherton$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down some large trees and damaged fences and outdoor structures in Asherton.
May 1994HailAsherton$5,000One-inch hail with very heavy rain fell in the city of Asherton.
March 2004Flash FloodAsherton$3,000As the showers and thunderstorms moved over southeast Dimmit County, they slowed, producing general 1 inch totals with up to 3 inches of rain in the Asherton area. FM 1157 was closed due to flash flooding through the mid morning period near Asherton.
April 2026HailAsherton-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Asherton. Report was from a picture on social media.
April 2026HailAsherton-A thunderstorm produced chicken egg to baseball size hail at the White Wing Motel on Hwy 83 northwest of Asherton.
April 2026HailAsherton-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Asherton.
May 2021FloodAsherton-Heavy rain caused minor street flooding in Asherton.
April 2008HailAsherton-The Circle V Ranch center in Carrizo reported nickel size hail in Asherton.
July 2007FloodAsherton-The Nueces River at Asherton crested at 24.5 ft on 07/23 at 1515cst, where flood stage is 20 ft.
June 2006Flash FloodAsherton-Showers and thunderstorms formed between Carrizo Springs and Catarina in Dimmit County, producing general 1 to 2 inch rain totals. Up to 4 inches of rain was indicated near Asherton, where the public reported flash flooding over low water crossings and secondary roads through the early evening.
April 2013HailAsherton-no account filed
March 2013HailAsherton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dimmit 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
Carrizo Hills Colonia5.5 miles9
Carrizo Hill5.6 miles9
Carrizo Springs7.7 miles9
Catarina10.2 miles12
Brundage10.3 miles8
Gilson Groves11.9 miles10
Winter Haven13.3 miles9
Espantosa Colonia13.4 miles10

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 AshertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019239The 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 1329157. 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.