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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.

Cushing within Nacogdoches County

Population over time

3 figures

Cushing 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.

YearPeople Change
2000637
2010612-25 (-4%)
2020557-55 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

73 since 1992

Regional 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
4 September 2005Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 92
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 568
20 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHERMAN NICOL
5 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 401

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cushing Mtn Mine and MillIronProducer

Every working recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

24 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2018Tornado (EF1)Cushing$30,000An 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 2026HailCushing-Golf ball to tennis ball size hail reported in Cushing.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindCushing-A tree was blown onto a power line on County Road 967 in Cushing.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindCushing-A tree was blown onto a power line on Bearkat Drive behind the pressbox at Cushing High School.
May 2019Flash FloodCushing-High water covered Highway 204 just east of Cushing. The road was closed.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindCushing-Numerous trees and power lines down just east of Cushing.
December 2017Thunderstorm WindCushing-A large tree was blown down across the road via dash cam video shown on the WeatherNation Twitter Page in the Cushing community.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindCushing-Several trees were downed along Hwy. 204 east of Cushing, Texas.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCushing-Trees were reported down on FM 343 and FM 1648.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCushing-Trees were downed around Cushing, Texas.
May 2006HailCushing-Hail fell in the town of Sacul.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCushing-Several trees downed on the west side of the county including near Cushing.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCushing-Numerous trees downed along FM 225 between Cushing and Douglass.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCushing-Several large trees down.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindCushing-Trees down blocking Hwys 259 and 204.
May 2017HailCushing-no account filed
May 2017HailCushing-no account filed
March 2005HailCushing-no account filed
March 2005HailCushing-no account filed
June 2005HailCushing-no account filed
March 2003Thunderstorm WindCushing-no account filed
March 2002HailCushing-no account filed
April 2000HailCushing-no account filed
October 1997HailCushing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Oak Flat2.5 miles11
Happy Valley3.4 miles11
Looneyville3.6 miles11
Sacul4.2 miles11
Dextra4.8 miles11
Trawick6.0 miles11
Linn Flat6.0 miles11
Lilbert6.3 miles11

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 CushingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973188The 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.