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.
Population over time
3 figuresCoolidge 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 848 | |
| 2010 | 955 | +107 (+13%) |
| 2020 | 778 | -177 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Coolidge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOYLE |
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PURSLEY |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $30,000 | Large 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $20,000 | The roofs were damaged on two unoccupied mobile homes north of Coolidge. Other visible damage was sustained to the two mobile homes. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $15,000 | Trees were uprooted and thrown onto cars and houses. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $10,000 | The roof was torn off a building under construction in the Coolidge area. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Coolidge | $10,000 | Highway 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $10,000 | Trees were blown down and a garage door buckled. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $5,000 | A public report indicated damage to a barn and multiple large trees down in the city of Coolidge, TX. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Coolidge | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were broken by high winds. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $2,000 | Strong winds blew down power lines. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Coolidge | $1,000 | Social Media reported quarter size hail in Coolidge. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | - | Emergency management reported large tree limbs down in Coolidge. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Coolidge | - | Emergency management reported that Jester between 5th and 6th St was flooded in Coolidge. |
| May 2021 | Flood | Coolidge | - | Street flooding occurred in Coolidge. Some of the water spilled over and inundated house yards. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Coolidge | - | 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 2011 | Tornado (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 2007 | Flash Flood | Coolidge | - | High water rescue required due to flooding. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | - | A patrol car was blown off road. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines. No dollar estimate of damage was reported. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolidge | - | Wind damage was reported by the county sheriff. No dollar estimate of damage was reported. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Coolidge | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Hail | Coolidge | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Coolidge | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Coolidge | - | 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.
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 Coolidge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979506 | 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 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.



