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.
Population over time
3 figuresDevers 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 416 | |
| 2010 | 447 | +31 (+7%) |
| 2020 | 361 | -86 (-19%) |
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 Devers quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 July 1998 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 401 |
| 8 June 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 72 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIVINGSTON - 491 |
| 11 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 362 |
| 26 April 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 128 |
| 8 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Devers | $175,000 | The 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devers | $15,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devers | $10,000 | Power lines down. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Devers | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Devers | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devers | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds downed several one foot diameter trees and destroyed a nearby carport. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devers | $2,000 | Tree down. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Devers | - | A member of the public reported 1 inch hail in Devers, Texas. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devers | - | Multiple trees were downed across the Devers area. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devers | - | A severe thunderstorm downed trees in Devers. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moore Settlement | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Cow Island | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Raywood | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Felicia | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Hogpen Crossing | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Woodson | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Rock Island | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Daisetta | 6.5 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 Devers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977075 | 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 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.






