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Barry, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Corsicana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75102. The Survey maps it on the Blooming Grove quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Barry within Navarro County

Population over time

2 figures

Barry fell from 242 to 220 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
2010242
2020220-22 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

215 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Barry between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,301 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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 burning103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use36
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking5
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7145 NWCR 1200
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7404 HWY 22
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1013500
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIVY
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE 2
27 September 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1312733
26 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5257 FM 55

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barry in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2012Flash FloodBarry$500,000County Road 2005 was closed due to high water and both northbound lanes of Interstate 45 at mile marker 231 were shut down due to flooding. Storm total rainfall within the county exceeded 6 inches. Multiple roads were reported to be washed out and there was also damage to culverts and bridges. As many as 80 roads were suspected to have been damaged or washed out. The county judge issued a disaster declaration for the county due to the flooding.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Barry$200,000A tornado formed approximately 2 miles southwest of Barry in open country, based on storm spotter video and eyewitness reports. This tornado moved north and northeast of Barry, impacting several residences and outbuildings along Navarro County roads 1210 and 1230. Most of the structural damage was confined to roofs and outbuilding sheet metal and was consistent with damage intensities of EF-0 and lower end EF-1 magnitude. However, one manufactured home along CR 1230 was totally destroyed, consistent with EF-1 winds of approximately 110 mph. The tornado traveled several additional miles to the east, passing north of Emhouse and producing EF-0 damage to trees and outbuildings. This tornado eventually dissipated in the Chambers Creek drainage west of Rice.
May 2015HailBarry$20,000The Navarro County emergency manager reported golf ball sized hail in Barry.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBarry$5,000Four power poles were snapped in the city of Barry.
March 2006HailBarry$5,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBarry$4,000The Navarro County Emergency Manager reported a carport was blown onto Highway 22 near Barry. Power lines in the area were also blown over.
September 2011HailBarry$3,000no account filed
April 2017HailBarry-Emergency manager reports golf ball size hail in Barry.
April 2005HailBarry-Golf ball size hail reported.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindBarry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Cryer Creek2.3 miles9
Blooming Grove4.3 miles8
Black Hills4.5 miles9
Drane4.6 miles9
Dresden5.3 miles8
Emhouse5.4 miles9
Lone Oak6.7 miles8
Raleigh7.1 miles8

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 BarryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972522The 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 1330100. 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.