Cushing, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75760. It lies near Denny Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cushing quadrangle. 557 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCushing fell from 637 to 557 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 637 | |
| 2010 | 612 | -25 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 557 | -55 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
73 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Cushing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 680 acres in total. 3 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 | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 92 |
| 28 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 568 |
| 20 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HERMAN NICOL |
| 5 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 401 |
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 Cushing: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cushing Mtn Mine and Mill | Iron | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cushing in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Cushing | $30,000 | An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 107 mph touched down on the southwest side of the community of Cushing, in a forested area west of 6th Street. This tornado tracked northeast on the south and east side of Cushing, where it picked up and flipped both a trampoline and an above ground pool while damaging the frame of a mobile home. The most focused damage was along the corner of Eucalyptus Avenue and 4th Street, where several trees were uprooted or snapped. As the tornado continued northeast, it tore off half of a sheet metal roof of a house as it crossed Highway 204, while also snapping a cross of a power pole. Additional trees were snapped or uprooted before the tornado lifted just north of Highway 204 on the northeast side of Cushing. In all, 16 structures were damaged and approximately 50 trees were snapped or uprooted. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Cushing | - | Golf ball to tennis ball size hail reported in Cushing. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | A tree was blown onto a power line on County Road 967 in Cushing. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | A tree was blown onto a power line on Bearkat Drive behind the pressbox at Cushing High School. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Cushing | - | High water covered Highway 204 just east of Cushing. The road was closed. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Numerous trees and power lines down just east of Cushing. |
| December 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | A large tree was blown down across the road via dash cam video shown on the WeatherNation Twitter Page in the Cushing community. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Several trees were downed along Hwy. 204 east of Cushing, Texas. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Trees were reported down on FM 343 and FM 1648. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Trees were downed around Cushing, Texas. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Cushing | - | Hail fell in the town of Sacul. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Several trees downed on the west side of the county including near Cushing. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Numerous trees downed along FM 225 between Cushing and Douglass. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Several large trees down. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | Trees down blocking Hwys 259 and 204. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Cushing | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Cushing | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Flat | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Happy Valley | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Looneyville | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Sacul | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Dextra | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Trawick | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Linn Flat | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Lilbert | 6.3 miles | 11 |
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 Cushing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973188 | 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 1333835. 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.







