Ector, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ector census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75439. The Survey maps it on the Ector quadrangle. 737 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEctor grew from 695 to 737 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 695 | |
| 2020 | 737 | +42 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Whitesright quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Ector quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
186 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Ector between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,076 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 | 89 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOHN HILL |
| 28 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 25 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE AT SALE BARN |
| 24 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 18 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ector in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ector | $5,000 | A trained spotter reported an overturned 18-wheeler between the towns of Ector and Savoy, TX. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ector | $500 | The county EM relayed a report of two power poles snapped on CR 4105 to the southeast of Ector. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Ector | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail 3 miles north of Ector. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Ector | - | Quarter size hail fell in Ector. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Ector | - | Nickel-size hail was reported between Ector and Bonham. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Ector | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Ector | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Ector | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Ector | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Ector | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Ector | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975328 | 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 1356807. 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.




