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Douglassville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75560. The Survey maps it on the Douglassville quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Douglassville within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Douglassville fell from 229 to 211 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
2010229
2020211-18 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Douglassville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,543 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 15 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 burning144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6236
6 September 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 633
3 September 2000Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 355
29 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6162
29 September 2017Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAD WRIGHT
29 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROD ROWE
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMICHAEL WALLIAMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglassville in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2026HailDouglassville-Golf ball size hail reported in Douglassville.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Numerous trees and power lines downed on Highway 77 approximately 6 miles west of Douglassville.
May 2020HailDouglassville-Quarter size hail fell in the Douglassville community.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Trees were downed across the entire county.
March 2010HailDouglassville-Penny to nickel sized hail reported in Douglassville, Texas.
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Douglassville-Several trees were uprooted and snapped along State Highway 8 north of Douglassville, Texas on both sides of the highway. Some minor shingle damage was noted to houses along the highway. Along County Road 2123, numerous hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted next to a church. No structural damage was noted.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Trees were downed in Douglassville, Texas.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Power lines were downed along Highway 77 in town.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Trees downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Trees were downed.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Numerous trees toppled.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-Several large trees down.
March 2000Tornado (F0)Douglassville-A weak tornado developed along a squall line as it moved southeast across the county. There is some thought that this tornado may have been a strong gustnado which formed along the leading edge of the squall line.
February 2013HailDouglassville-no account filed
July 2005HailDouglassville-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindDouglassville-no account filed
March 2000HailDouglassville-no account filed
March 2000HailDouglassville-no account filed
April 2000HailDouglassville-no account filed
May 1998HailDouglassville-no account filed
February 1998HailDouglassville-no account filed
May 1997HailDouglassville-no account filed
September 1996HailDouglassville-no account filed
April 1993HailDouglassville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Panhandle2.1 miles10
Gum Springs3.0 miles10
Overcup Landing3.2 miles10
Poorboy Landing3.6 miles10
Midway3.7 miles10
Armstrong Landing4.6 miles10
Red Hill4.8 miles11
O'Farrell5.0 miles11

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 DouglassvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972811The 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 1334570. 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.