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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.

Daisetta within Liberty County

Population over time

2 figures

Daisetta 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.

YearPeople Change
2010966
2020923-43 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

27 since 1992

Regional 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 September 2013Fireworks3.1 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8075
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism43 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2019Natural74 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARDIN 18:45
1 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8062
6 August 1993Debris and open burning70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hull Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1908

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDaisetta$15,000There was some damage to homes and power lines were downed.
January 2001Thunderstorm WindDaisetta$15,000Trees down in Daisetta.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDaisetta$9,000Car wash roof collapsed and trees downed.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Daisetta$5,000Super 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 1995Tornado (F0)Daisetta$5,000Super 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 1998Thunderstorm WindDaisetta$3,000Trees down on HWY 834.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindDaisetta$2,500There were trees downed in Daisetta.
May 2021Flash FloodDaisetta-CR 2017 south of Daisetta was impassable due to floodwaters.
April 2019HailDaisetta-Ping pong size hail was reported.
June 2007Funnel CloudDaisetta-Funnel sighted in town off of FM 770 moving northeast.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Hull2.3 miles13
Pedeco2.7 miles13
Woodson3.3 miles13
Frige Settlement3.9 miles13
Rock Island4.3 miles13
Moore Settlement4.7 miles13
Raywood5.2 miles13
Hardin5.8 miles13

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 DaisettaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q690772The 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.