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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.

Ector within Fannin County

Population over time

2 figures

Ector 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.

YearPeople Change
2010695
2020737+42 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

186 since 2005

Regional 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 burning89
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2015Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN HILL
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE AT SALE BARN
24 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2015Thunderstorm WindEctor$5,000A trained spotter reported an overturned 18-wheeler between the towns of Ector and Savoy, TX.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEctor$500The county EM relayed a report of two power poles snapped on CR 4105 to the southeast of Ector.
March 2025HailEctor-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail 3 miles north of Ector.
May 2009HailEctor-Quarter size hail fell in Ector.
May 2008HailEctor-Nickel-size hail was reported between Ector and Bonham.
May 2008HailEctor-no account filed
April 2003HailEctor-no account filed
June 2003HailEctor-no account filed
April 1994HailEctor-no account filed
April 1994HailEctor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Midway2.8 miles6
Rogers2.8 miles6
Nunnelee3.8 miles6
Ely4.3 miles7
Edhube4.6 miles6
Bonham5.0 miles6
Savoy5.2 miles7
Enterprise5.6 miles7

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 EctorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975328The 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.