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Beckville, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beckville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75631. It lies near The Sand Hills. The Survey maps it on the Beckville quadrangle. 722 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Beckville within Panola County

Population over time

2 figures

Beckville fell from 847 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
2010847
2020722-125 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

272 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Beckville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,101 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 13 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 burning158
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-0118
7 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-0086
6 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-0117
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 493
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2017-117
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2017-118
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beckville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Panola County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beckville in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindBeckville3 hurt, $700,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed 2 homes and damaged several other homes and buildings. There were three injuries...one was in a home when the roof was blown off their house and two others were injured when a tree fell on their vehicle. All were treated at an area hospital and released.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Beckville$600,000National Weather Storm Survey Team determined that damage across Panola County was consistent with that of a tornado. An EF1 tornado first touched down near Beckville, Texsa and traveled east northeast before lifting just northeast of De Berry Texas. Numerous trees and powerlines were downed throughout the track of this tornado and some of these trees damaged several homes and outbuildings as well.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindBeckville$10,000A large section of a tin roof was blown off a rodeo arena on County Road 263 in the community of Rock Hill, Texas.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindBeckville$5,000Two boats were damaged by thunderstorm winds and several trees were blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Trees and power lines downed in Beckville.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Trees downed near Beckville.
April 2020HailBeckville-A picture of golf ball size hail that fell in the Sterrett Hill community was posted to social media.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Several softwood tree trunks were snapped along Farm to Market Road 959 by downburst winds estimated near 80 mph to the south of an EF-1 tornado just to the northwest.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBeckville-A tree was blown down on County Road 241 just off of FM 124 near Beckville.
October 2019HailBeckville-Quarter size hail fell northeast of Beckville.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Trees were blown down blocking Highway 149 between Beckville and Carthage.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Trees were blown down onto Highway 59 north near the Sabine River.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Several trees were blown down north of Beckville a few miles south of the Harrison County line.
December 2017Flash FloodBeckville-Street flooding was reported in Beckville.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBeckville-A tree was downed at FM. 959 near FM. 124 in Beckville, Texas.
February 2013Tornado (EF0)Beckville-The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and concluded that a tornado touched down north northeast of Beckville, Texas. Damage consisted of numerous large limbs and a few trees snapped along FM 1794. Several pictures of the funnel were captured.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Trees were downed on Farm to Marked Road 1794 and County Road 266.
October 2009Flash FloodBeckville-Two feet of water over FM 1794 about one quarter mile east of U.S. 59 and at least 1.5 foot of water over CR. 263 about a half mile east of U.S. 59.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Trees were downed in the area.
March 2008Flash FloodBeckville-Three foot of water was encroaching a residence of Farm to Market Road 263. Water up the the truck doors and swift flowing water was reported at Farm to Market Road 1794 and 267.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Powerlines downed on CR 241.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Several large trees down.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Several large trees down along CR 257.
June 1999Flash FloodBeckville-Highway 124 closed due to flash flooding.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Reports of trees down across power lines.
February 1993Thunderstorm WindBeckville-Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind.
March 2005HailBeckville-no account filed
April 2004HailBeckville-no account filed
May 2003HailBeckville-no account filed
March 1999HailBeckville-no account filed
March 1997Flash FloodBeckville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Panola 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
Arbor3.2 miles16
Sterrett Hill4.6 miles13
Harris Chapel4.7 miles13
Riderville5.2 miles14
Holland Quarters5.3 miles14
Delray6.2 miles14
Grand Bluff6.3 miles13
Center Point6.3 miles13

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 BeckvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978731The 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 1351745. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.