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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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Cumby within Hopkins County

Population over time

2 figures

Cumby 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.

YearPeople Change
2010777
2020679-98 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

131 since 2005

Regional 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMMERCE LAND FILL FIRE
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAY
7 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI 30 S SERVICE RD 108MM
7 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCUMBY FIRE
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARADISE RD
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH SEVICE RD 110MM
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
28 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service107 MILL ST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

34 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCumby$150,000Barns 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 2022HailCumby$25,000Law enforcement reported quarter to golf ball sized hail in Cumby, TX.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCumby$15,000Several 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 2003Thunderstorm WindCumby$15,000150 yard wide swath of trees up to 4 feet in diameter blown down, power lines blown down ,and outbuildings unroofed.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCumby$10,000Broadcast media produced an image of a tree fallen onto a home in Cumby, causing damage to its roof.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCumby$8,000Several trees and two barns were blown down and an awning was blown off a trailer. Reported by the media.
May 2024HailCumby$5,000Golf ball sized hail reported at FM499 and FM275 in Cumby.
May 2006HailCumby$5,000Golf ball-size hail reported on Highway 11 north of Cumby.
October 1998Tornado (F0)Cumby$5,000A narrow tornado briefly touched down north of Cumby. Numerous powerlines were downed.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindCumby$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindCumby$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2006HailCumby$5,000no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindCumby$2,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCumby$100Trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds on CR 4131, two miles south of Cumby.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCumby-Numerous trees were blown down across the county with several roads blocked. Powerlines were also reported down in some areas.
May 2019HailCumby-Cumby Police Department reported quarter size hail in the city of Cumby, TX.
August 2012HailCumby-Pea to quarter sized hail fell for approximately 20 minutes in Cumby.
August 2010HailCumby-Dime size hail was reported on CR 4131, two miles south of Cumby.
April 2008FloodCumby-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 2006HailCumby-Quarter-size hail reported in Miller Grove.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCumby-Trees uprooted in the community of Brashear.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCumby-Large tree limbs were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCumby-Strong winds blew down a large tree.
April 1995HailCumby-A tornado was reported over Lake Sulphur Springs on the north side of Sulphur Springs.
April 2011HailCumby-no account filed
September 2011HailCumby-no account filed
April 2003HailCumby-no account filed
May 2003HailCumby-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCumby-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindCumby-no account filed
November 1994HailCumby-no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindCumby-no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindCumby-no account filed
September 1993HailCumby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Palestine4.0 miles9
Branom4.4 miles9
Ridgeway4.8 miles9
Overland5.0 miles8
Brashear5.8 miles8
Gafford7.9 miles8
Miller Grove8.0 miles9
Emblem8.5 miles9

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 CumbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969799The 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.