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Deweyville, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Deweyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77614. The Survey maps it on the Starks quadrangle. 571 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Deweyville within Newton County

On record in Deweyville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Deweyville fell from 1,190 to 571 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
20001,190
20101,023-167 (-14%)
2020571-452 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

307 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Deweyville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,569 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 76 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Arson/incendiarism76
Debris and open burning47
Natural37
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
8 September 2005Natural130 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 963
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Deweyville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Deweyville Dredge & PlantSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deweyville in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 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
June 2001Flash FloodDeweyville$50,000Mainly street and bridge damage occurred in southern sections of Newton County as a result of nearly ten inches of rain in less than ten hours.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$50,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$25,000no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$20,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$15,000Trees were blown down in many locations across Newton County.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$10,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$10,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$5,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$5,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$5,000no account filed
October 2025Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$3,000Numerous trees were downed around the Devils Pocket area.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$2,000Tress downed onto County Roads 3127, 4212, and 4181.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$2,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$2,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$2,000no account filed
February 2026Thunderstorm WindDeweyville$1,000Wood siding was damaged from severe thunderstorm wind gusts at the Deweyville United Pentecostal Church.
May 2024Flash FloodDeweyville-The stream gauge on Little Cypress Creek at County Road indicated the creek rose out of its banks.
May 2024HailDeweyville-A report of half dollar sized hail was received from near Deweyville.
April 2016Flash FloodDeweyville-Water flooded Farm-to-Market 253 closing portions of the road.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindDeweyville-RAWS mesonet station KRBT2 measured a 59 mph wind gust.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindDeweyville-Trees down at Highways 253 and 82.
April 2000HailDeweyville-no account filed
April 1997HailDeweyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Ruliff1.7 miles13
Hartburg3.0 miles9
Salem16.9 miles9
Trout Creek22.3 miles9
Call22.8 miles9
Sandjack23.7 miles12
Adsul24.4 miles9
Harrells25.8 miles9

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 DeweyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962768The 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 1334321. 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.