Daisetta, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Daisetta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77533. The Survey maps it on the Daisetta quadrangle. 923 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDaisetta fell from 966 to 923 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 | 966 | |
| 2020 | 923 | -43 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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 Liberty quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Daisetta quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Daisetta quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Daisetta between 1992 and 2019, burning about 902 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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 | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2013 | Fireworks | 3.1 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8075 |
| 15 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 43 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2019 | Natural | 74 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HARDIN 18:45 |
| 1 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8062 |
| 6 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 July 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 Daisetta: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hull Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1908 |
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daisetta in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daisetta | $15,000 | There was some damage to homes and power lines were downed. |
| January 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daisetta | $15,000 | Trees down in Daisetta. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daisetta | $9,000 | Car wash roof collapsed and trees downed. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Daisetta | $5,000 | Super cell moved across Lake Houston and intensified to form a mesocyclone as it moved into Liberty County. This super cell produced four tornadoes as it moved from west to east across the county. The third of the four tornadoes touched down in downtown Liberty and was the most significant. Twelve people were injured with two requiring to be hospitalized. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Daisetta | $5,000 | Super cell moved across Lake Houston and intensified to form a mesocyclone as it moved into Liberty County. This super cell produced four tornadoes as moved from west to east across the county. The third of the four tornadoes touched down in downtown Liberty and was the most significant. Twelve people were injured with two requiring to be hospitalized. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daisetta | $3,000 | Trees down on HWY 834. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Daisetta | $2,500 | There were trees downed in Daisetta. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Daisetta | - | CR 2017 south of Daisetta was impassable due to floodwaters. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Daisetta | - | Ping pong size hail was reported. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Daisetta | - | Funnel sighted in town off of FM 770 moving northeast. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hull | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Pedeco | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Woodson | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Frige Settlement | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rock Island | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Moore Settlement | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Raywood | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hardin | 5.8 miles | 13 |
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 Daisetta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q690772 | 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 1333877. 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.






