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.
Population over time
2 figuresCuney 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 140 | |
| 2020 | 116 | -24 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1946 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1973 USGS Berryville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
243 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 125 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR3501 (130) |
| 5 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS/FIRE FROM # 124 (132) |
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 475 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ANDERSON COUNTY FIRE |
| 30 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7132 |
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7106 |
| 3 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2224 CR 3406 |
| 29 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 576 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boggy Creek Salt Dome | Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Halite | Occurrence | 1925 |
Storms near this place
15 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Hail | Cuney | - | Quarter size hail reported at the dam at Lake Palestine. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuney | - | Scattered trees were blown down on County Road 3504 on the east shore of Lake Palestine. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Cuney | - | FM 855 north of Highway 175 northeast of Cuney was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Cuney | - | FM 855 north of Highway 175 was closed due to flooding. |
| February 2020 | Flash Flood | Cuney | - | FM 855 was flooded and closed over Flat Creek north of the Cuney community. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuney | - | Trees were downed near the intersection of Highway 175 and 855 in the Cuney community. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuney | - | A large tree was blown down blocking County Road 3504 near the Blackburn Crossing Dam. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Cuney | - | 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Cuney | - | FM 855 was flooded and closed just north of the Cuney community. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Cuney | - | Farm to Market Road 855 north of Highway 175 to just south of Farm to Market Road 3198 was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Cuney | - | Numerous roads across Cherokee County were flooded and closed. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuney | - | Several trees down northwest of the Cuney community. |
| October 2013 | Flash Flood | Cuney | - | FM. 855 between Hwy. 175 and FM. 3198 was closed due to flash flooding. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuney | - | Trees were downed along Hwy. 69 near the Cuney community. |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuney | - | Power lines were blown down on Farm to Market 346. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reese | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Cherokee Landing | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Corine | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cove Springs | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Larissa | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Church Hill | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Mountain Heaven | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Lake View | 7.1 miles | 10 |
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 Cuney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q974236 | 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 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.






