Chireno, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75937. The Survey maps it on the Chireno South quadrangle. 370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 322 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChireno fell from 386 to 370 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 386 | |
| 2020 | 370 | -16 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Broaddus quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Chireno South quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Chireno South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Chireno between 1992 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 burning | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CANCELLED |
| 27 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 599 |
| 26 August 2011 | Natural | 22 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 451 |
| 25 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE AT ETME |
| 2 August 2013 | Natural | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7070 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chireno in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | 1 killed | A woman driving along FM 226 near the town of Etoile was killed when the top of a pine tree was snapped off and went through her windshield. Reported by Departement of Public Safety. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | $500,000 | The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Nacogdoches and San Augustine County and concluded that damage was the result of a major downburst. Hundreds of trees from Chireno to San Augustine and to the south were either uprooted or snapped. A few single story homes in the Denning area sustained major structural damage due to large oak trees falling onto the homes. Several chicken houses were damaged by the downburst winds along FM road 1196. The roofs were peeled back. Numerous cars were damaged due to fallen trees, such as along FM road 1277, where two full size trucks were pinned by large oak trees. |
| April 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Chireno | $5,000 | An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 95 mph touched down along County Road 442 a few miles southwest of Chireno, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in a heavily wooded area, while continuing northeast along and across County Road 443. The tornado lifted just east of County Road 443, although the rear flank downdraft from this storm tore off a 100 foot section of tin roofing from a vacant chicken house just off of County Road 442. Portions of the roofs from three other adjacent vacant chicken houses were partially lifted up about two inches. Damaging straight line winds of 80-85 mph from this same storm uprooted a tree in front of the Chireno ISD Building on Main Street in Chireno, with numerous trees downed in a north northeasterly direction along Highway 27 about 1-2 miles east of Chireno near the San Augustine County line. |
| March 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | $3,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Chireno | - | Half dollar size hail reported in the Chireno community. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | A large tree was blown down across the Attoyac Bayou bridge along the Nacogdoches/San Augustine County line. A vehicle hit the tree, but no injuries were reported. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Multiple trees downed in Chireno. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Chireno | - | Quarter size hail reported in Chireno via social media. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Several trees and power lines downed in Chireno. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | A tree was downed and blocking one lane of Highway 21 near Chireno. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Chireno | - | FM 95 was flooded just south of County Road 486. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | A tree was split in Chireno. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Trees were downed along Hwy. 21 in Chireno, Texas. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Chireno | - | Quarter inch hail fell 11 miles north northwest of Chireno, Texas. |
| November 2015 | Flash Flood | Chireno | - | High water was reported on Hwy. 21 between Nacogdoches and San Augustine, Texas. |
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Several trees were down in and around the Chireno area. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | A tree was downed on FM. 95 near Chireno, Texas. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Chireno | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Chireno, Texas. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Several trees were blown down in Chireno, Texas. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Trees downed on CR 434. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Chireno | - | Hail fell in the Etoile community. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Trees and power lines downed. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chireno | - | Numerous large trees down in town. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Chireno | - | no account filed |
| February 2005 | Hail | Chireno | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Chireno | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suttons Mill | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Clear Springs | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Attoyac | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| La Cerda | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Melrose | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Etoile | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Woden | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Martinsville | 10.4 miles | 11 |
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 Chireno | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981972 | The 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 1381638. 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.







