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Devers, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77538. The Survey maps it on the Devers quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Devers within Liberty County

Population over time

3 figures

Devers fell from 416 to 361 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
2000416
2010447+31 (+7%)
2020361-86 (-19%)

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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Devers between 1992 and 2013, burning about 284 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 July 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1998Natural8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 401
8 June 2011Arson/incendiarism72 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 491
11 June 1996Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use13 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 362
26 April 2010Arson/incendiarism80 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 128
8 March 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Devers in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
January 1999Tornado (F2)Devers$175,000The tornado appeared to have formed just on the other side of a canal in the Dunning's Farm area. At this point three large houses were completely destroyed with widespread tree damage. The tornado moved NE and dragged heavy farm tractors (approximately 50000 lbs) over 10 to 15 feet. The tornado moved across a wide open field and crossed into Jefferson county.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDevers$15,000Trees and power lines down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDevers$10,000Power lines down.
March 2000HailDevers$10,000no account filed
September 1997HailDevers$5,000no account filed
October 2006Thunderstorm WindDevers$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds downed several one foot diameter trees and destroyed a nearby carport.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDevers$2,000Tree down.
May 2025HailDevers-A member of the public reported 1 inch hail in Devers, Texas.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindDevers-Multiple trees were downed across the Devers area.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDevers-A severe thunderstorm downed trees in Devers.

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
Moore Settlement2.9 miles13
Cow Island3.9 miles13
Raywood4.4 miles13
Felicia4.4 miles13
Hogpen Crossing4.7 miles13
Woodson5.4 miles13
Rock Island6.5 miles13
Daisetta6.5 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 DeversAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977075The 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 1334286. 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.

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.