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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.

Crandall within Kaufman County

Population over time

3 figures

Crandall 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.

YearPeople Change
20002,774
20102,858+84 (+3%)
20203,860+1,002 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

145 since 2005

Regional 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
9 September 2014Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 175
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDALLAS EAST
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTITZLE ROAD
15 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR RIDGE
15 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS HWY 175
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGASTONIA
7 August 2011Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWERLINE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gifford Hill Bobwyn Pit & Plant #12Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant No 53Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Woody Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2004Thunderstorm WindCrandall$300,000A 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 2023HailCrandall$250,000A social media picture indicated a hailstone around 3.5 inches in diameter about 2 miles north of Crandall, TX.
April 2023HailCrandall$150,000A social media picture indicated hail up to tennis ball sized in Crandall, TX.
August 2022Flash FloodCrandall$100,000Part of Union Hill Rd was washed out, trapping 10 families.
October 2019HailCrandall$10,000A trained spotter reported two-inch diameter hail immediately southeast of the city of Crandall.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCrandall$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed large trees and power lines in Crandall.
May 2011HailCrandall$10,000Baseball sized hail fell just south of Crandall.
May 2025HailCrandall$7,000A Facebook photo showed golfball size hail in Crandall.
June 2016Flash FloodCrandall$5,000Numerous homes flooded near the communities of Combine and Crandall. Flash flooding also caused numerous roads to be closed.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindCrandall$2,000no account filed
January 2025Flash FloodCrandall-Emergency management reported that US 175 and FM 148 between Kaufman and Combine were closed multiple times for flooding through early morning.
May 2025HailCrandall-Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).
June 2024HailCrandall-Reported via mPing.
November 2015FloodCrandall-High water was reported along the access road of Highway 174 in Crandall.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCrandall-A 63 mph thunderstorm wind gust was recorded at a school-net site in Crandall.
July 2010HailCrandall-Penny size hail was reported in Crandall.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCrandall-Tree limbs broken off.
February 2001Flash FloodCrandall-A bridge was washed out during the night. The washed out bridge stranded 27 families. Time of event is only an estimate.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Crandall-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Crandall-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
October 1994HailCrandall-Two brief tornado touchdowns occurred.
April 1994HailCrandall-A brief tornado touchdown observed by a storm chaser.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindCrandall-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
March 2021HailCrandall-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindCrandall-no account filed
May 2003HailCrandall-no account filed
February 2000HailCrandall-no account filed
April 1995HailCrandall-no account filed
May 1995HailCrandall-no account filed
June 1994HailCrandall-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCrandall-no account filed
April 1993HailCrandall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Gastonia3.0 miles11
Combine3.9 miles19
Heartland4.5 miles12
Talty5.3 miles12
Warsaw Center5.5 miles11
Warsaw5.7 miles11
Lone Star5.7 miles10
Markout5.8 miles12

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 CrandallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969829The 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.