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Cason, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Daingerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75638. The Survey maps it on the Cason quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Cason within Morris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Cason between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,480 acres in total. 7 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 burning163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 566
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOYD CROLEY
4 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 179
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service64 COUNTY ROAD
29 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cason: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Daingerfield DepositIron, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Lone Star Steel Black Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Lone Star Steel Daingerfield MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Morris County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cason in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 8 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
November 2022Tornado (EF3)Cason1 killed, 8 hurt, $5,000,000The supercell thunderstorm which produced a brief and weak tornado in eastern Camp County then went on to produce a stronger and longer-lasting tornado from southwestern Morris County and into northwestern Cass County. This EF-3 tornado with estimated maximum winds of 155 mph initially started along FM-144 south of the Cason community and very quickly became quite destructive, producing EF-3 damage to a home, and EF-2 damage to multiple structures before tracking northeast to Texas Highway 11. A few mobile homes were destroyed near the start of the tornado which resulted in several injuries. The tornado continued to track northeast from Texas Highway 11 to Highway 49, doing mostly EF-1 damage for 3 miles before reaching Highway 49. As the tornado crossed Highway 49, two nearby homes were completely destroyed and largely swept from their foundations and at least one injury resulted. This damage was only rated EF-2 because of the pier and beam foundation construction of both homes did not anchor the structures well to the intense wind loading. Behind the homes, some isolated tree debarking was observed with a swath of EF-3 damage with maximum winds of 140 mph. The tornado continued to the northeast, completely destroying a mobile home along CR-3201, where one fatality associated with this tornado occurred. The tornado continued to advance northeastward, doing mainly EF-1 damage to trees and some structures before knocking over and destroying a few large electrical transmission lines near the intersection of CR-3211 and CR-3209. EF-2 level winds at 125 mph were estimated to have caused this structural damage. Finally, the tornado continued on another several miles to the northeast across U.S. Highway 259 before crossing into northwestern Cass County.
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Cason$25,000This EF1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 88 mph developed within a QLCS and began along Farm-to-Market Road 144 just north of Highway 49 in extreme eastern Morris County. The tornado moved east northeast across Hunt Road/County Road 1235, Green Street Road/County Road 1233, and County Road 3208, uprooting numerous trees and breaking large branches. The tornado continued northeast crossing Wilson Road, Kelly Road, Foster Road, and Old Daingerfield Road before moving across U.S. Highway 259 north of Rocky Branch. More tree limbs were downed as the tornado crossed County Road 4212, Highway 338, and Daniels Chapel Road. The tornado uprooted more softwood trees before lifting on Daniels Chapel Road just east of its intersection with Leeves Road and just west of the Morris/Cass County line. Just east of there, a significant number of large pine trees were uprooted at a property at the intersection of Daniels Chapel Road and FM Road 161. However, the damage pattern of these uproots was consistent with straight-line wind damage and not a tornado. The tornado had a maximum width of 735 yards and tracked nearly 9 miles.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCason-Tree downed on a vehicle in Cason.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCason-A tree was blown down onto FM 144 just north of Highway 49.
April 2020Funnel CloudCason-A wall cloud was observed several miles northwest of Daingerfield.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindCason-A tree was blown down on FM 144 near Cason.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCason-Trees were blown down across power lines on CR 1217 between 144 and 11.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCason-Wind gust estimated about 1.5 miles east of the Cason community from a postal service employee.

Every storm recorded in Morris 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
Gillis2.8 miles9
Daingerfield5.0 miles11
Mount Mitchell5.8 miles9
Jenkins6.7 miles12
Rocky Branch8.0 miles11
Lone Star8.7 miles12
Laman9.3 miles12
Omaha10.5 miles11

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 CasonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710390The 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 1332292. 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.