Crandall, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Crandall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75114. The Survey maps it on the Forney South quadrangle. 3,860 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCrandall grew from 2,774 to 3,860 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 | 2,774 | |
| 2010 | 2,858 | +84 (+3%) |
| 2020 | 3,860 | +1,002 (+35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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 Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Kaufman quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Forney South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
145 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Crandall between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,354 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 175 |
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DALLAS EAST |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STITZLE ROAD |
| 15 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEDAR RIDGE |
| 15 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US HWY 175 |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GASTONIA |
| 7 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | POWERLINE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Crandall: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gifford Hill Bobwyn Pit & Plant #12 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Plant No 53 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Woody Sand Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crandall in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | $300,000 | A downburst destroyed a storage building and partially unroofed a house west of Kaufman. Along FM 987, five homes were destroyed, trees and power lines were blown down. In the community of Post Oak Bend a mobile home was heavily damaged, a house was partially unroofed, and damage occurred to barns and trees. Minor roof damage occurred to several other structures. The strong winds caused five wrecks on Interstate 20 at mile marker 504. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Crandall | $250,000 | A social media picture indicated a hailstone around 3.5 inches in diameter about 2 miles north of Crandall, TX. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Crandall | $150,000 | A social media picture indicated hail up to tennis ball sized in Crandall, TX. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Crandall | $100,000 | Part of Union Hill Rd was washed out, trapping 10 families. |
| October 2019 | Hail | Crandall | $10,000 | A trained spotter reported two-inch diameter hail immediately southeast of the city of Crandall. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed large trees and power lines in Crandall. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Crandall | $10,000 | Baseball sized hail fell just south of Crandall. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Crandall | $7,000 | A Facebook photo showed golfball size hail in Crandall. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Crandall | $5,000 | Numerous homes flooded near the communities of Combine and Crandall. Flash flooding also caused numerous roads to be closed. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | $2,000 | no account filed |
| January 2025 | Flash Flood | Crandall | - | Emergency management reported that US 175 and FM 148 between Kaufman and Combine were closed multiple times for flooding through early morning. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Crandall | - | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). |
| June 2024 | Hail | Crandall | - | Reported via mPing. |
| November 2015 | Flood | Crandall | - | High water was reported along the access road of Highway 174 in Crandall. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | A 63 mph thunderstorm wind gust was recorded at a school-net site in Crandall. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Crandall | - | Penny size hail was reported in Crandall. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | Tree limbs broken off. |
| February 2001 | Flash Flood | Crandall | - | A bridge was washed out during the night. The washed out bridge stranded 27 families. Time of event is only an estimate. |
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Crandall | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Crandall | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| October 1994 | Hail | Crandall | - | Two brief tornado touchdowns occurred. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Crandall | - | A brief tornado touchdown observed by a storm chaser. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Crandall | - | 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 Crandall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969829 | 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 1333620. 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.




