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Coolidge, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Coolidge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76635. The Survey maps it on the Coolidge quadrangle. 778 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Coolidge within Limestone County

Population over time

3 figures

Coolidge fell from 848 to 778 between 2000 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
2000848
2010955+107 (+13%)
2020778-177 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

55 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Coolidge between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,931 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOYLE
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePURSLEY
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coolidge in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 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
April 2008Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$30,000Large trees and power lines were blown down in Coolidge and Mexia. Large limbs were blown down near the Forest Glade area. A roof was ripped off a trailer home near Lake Mexia.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$20,000The roofs were damaged on two unoccupied mobile homes north of Coolidge. Other visible damage was sustained to the two mobile homes.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$15,000Trees were uprooted and thrown onto cars and houses.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$10,000The roof was torn off a building under construction in the Coolidge area.
October 2015Flash FloodCoolidge$10,000Highway 171 between Hubbard and Coolidge was closed due to water over the road. The rain, often heavy at times, continued for over 24 hours and approximately 20 inches or more of rain fell in the Coolidge area and far northern portions of Limestone County.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$10,000Trees were blown down and a garage door buckled.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$5,000A public report indicated damage to a barn and multiple large trees down in the city of Coolidge, TX.
April 2006HailCoolidge$5,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$2,000Large tree limbs were broken by high winds.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$2,000Strong winds blew down power lines.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down by high winds.
May 2017HailCoolidge$1,000Social Media reported quarter size hail in Coolidge.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-Emergency management reported large tree limbs down in Coolidge.
May 2024Flash FloodCoolidge-Emergency management reported that Jester between 5th and 6th St was flooded in Coolidge.
May 2021FloodCoolidge-Street flooding occurred in Coolidge. Some of the water spilled over and inundated house yards.
May 2015Flash FloodCoolidge-Emergency management said that the volunteer fire department was blocking TX HWY 171 between two and 4 miles north of Coolidge, TX due to flooding.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Coolidge-A NWS Storm Survey determined an EF-0 tornado occurred approximately 3 miles northeast of Coolidge. This tornado had a path length of approximately 1.3 miles and an estimated width of 100 yards. Mostly tree damage occurred with this tornado and winds were estimated at 70 mph.
March 2007Flash FloodCoolidge-High water rescue required due to flooding.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-A patrol car was blown off road.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines. No dollar estimate of damage was reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-Wind damage was reported by the county sheriff. No dollar estimate of damage was reported.
April 2007HailCoolidge-no account filed
November 2003HailCoolidge-no account filed
March 2000HailCoolidge-no account filed
April 1996HailCoolidge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Calina2.7 miles7
Datura2.8 miles9
Munger4.2 miles7
Echols4.7 miles8
Sandy4.8 miles8
Tehuacana5.5 miles9
Mustang6.8 miles8
Delia7.0 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 CoolidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979506The 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 1373194. 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.