Cumby, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cumby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75433. The Survey maps it on the Cumby quadrangle. 679 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresCumby fell from 777 to 679 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 | 777 | |
| 2020 | 679 | -98 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cumby quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
131 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Cumby between 2005 and 2019, burning about 710 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COMMERCE LAND FILL FIRE |
| 7 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRAY |
| 7 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I 30 S SERVICE RD 108MM |
| 7 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CUMBY FIRE |
| 5 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PARADISE RD |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH SEVICE RD 110MM |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 28 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 107 MILL ST |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cumby in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $150,000 | Barns were blown down, trees blown onto houses and utility poles down in a widespread area around Cumby southwest to Lone Oak in Hunt County. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Cumby | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported quarter to golf ball sized hail in Cumby, TX. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $15,000 | Several trees were knocked down across the county but the hardest hit area was along Hwy 19 north of Sulphur Springs. On either side of the highway, numerous trees were knocked down and many trees blocked roads. On CR 4769, a carport was blown across the road. The roof of an unoccupied trailer on CR 4591 was ripped off. A few trees were also knocked down across the southern half of the county. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $15,000 | 150 yard wide swath of trees up to 4 feet in diameter blown down, power lines blown down ,and outbuildings unroofed. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $10,000 | Broadcast media produced an image of a tree fallen onto a home in Cumby, causing damage to its roof. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $8,000 | Several trees and two barns were blown down and an awning was blown off a trailer. Reported by the media. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Cumby | $5,000 | Golf ball sized hail reported at FM499 and FM275 in Cumby. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Cumby | $5,000 | Golf ball-size hail reported on Highway 11 north of Cumby. |
| October 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Cumby | $5,000 | A narrow tornado briefly touched down north of Cumby. Numerous powerlines were downed. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $5,000 | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $5,000 | Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Cumby | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | $100 | Trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds on CR 4131, two miles south of Cumby. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | Numerous trees were blown down across the county with several roads blocked. Powerlines were also reported down in some areas. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Cumby | - | Cumby Police Department reported quarter size hail in the city of Cumby, TX. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Cumby | - | Pea to quarter sized hail fell for approximately 20 minutes in Cumby. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Cumby | - | Dime size hail was reported on CR 4131, two miles south of Cumby. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Cumby | - | Portions of FM 3134 in the Cumby area were flooded. FM 71 near the Hopkins/Hunt County line was flooded by the South Sulphur River. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Cumby | - | Quarter-size hail reported in Miller Grove. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | Trees uprooted in the community of Brashear. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | Large tree limbs were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | Strong winds blew down a large tree. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Cumby | - | A tornado was reported over Lake Sulphur Springs on the north side of Sulphur Springs. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Hail | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| November 1994 | Hail | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumby | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Cumby | - | 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 Cumby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969799 | 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 1333809. 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.




