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Cuney, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75759. It stands on Jordan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berryville quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Cuney within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Cuney fell from 140 to 116 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
2010140
2020116-24 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Cuney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,093 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 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 burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking10
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR3501 (130)
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/FIRE FROM # 124 (132)
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 475
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANDERSON COUNTY FIRE
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7132
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7106
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2224 CR 3406
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 576

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cuney: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Halite. 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
Boggy Creek Salt DomeGypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, HaliteOccurrence1925

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuney in 15 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2025HailCuney-Quarter size hail reported at the dam at Lake Palestine.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCuney-Scattered trees were blown down on County Road 3504 on the east shore of Lake Palestine.
May 2021Flash FloodCuney-FM 855 north of Highway 175 northeast of Cuney was closed due to flooding.
July 2021Flash FloodCuney-FM 855 north of Highway 175 was closed due to flooding.
February 2020Flash FloodCuney-FM 855 was flooded and closed over Flat Creek north of the Cuney community.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCuney-Trees were downed near the intersection of Highway 175 and 855 in the Cuney community.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCuney-A large tree was blown down blocking County Road 3504 near the Blackburn Crossing Dam.
December 2018FloodCuney-Numerous county roads were flooded near the smaller creeks and streams across Cherokee County, which occurred as runoff continued well after the rains had ended.
November 2018Flash FloodCuney-FM 855 was flooded and closed just north of the Cuney community.
April 2016Flash FloodCuney-Farm to Market Road 855 north of Highway 175 to just south of Farm to Market Road 3198 was closed due to flooding.
April 2016Flash FloodCuney-Numerous roads across Cherokee County were flooded and closed.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindCuney-Several trees down northwest of the Cuney community.
October 2013Flash FloodCuney-FM. 855 between Hwy. 175 and FM. 3198 was closed due to flash flooding.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCuney-Trees were downed along Hwy. 69 near the Cuney community.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindCuney-Power lines were blown down on Farm to Market 346.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Reese1.5 miles15
Cherokee Landing2.2 miles15
Corine3.8 miles10
Cove Springs4.1 miles14
Larissa5.2 miles14
Church Hill5.9 miles10
Mountain Heaven6.8 miles10
Lake View7.1 miles10

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 CuneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974236The 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 1333813. 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.