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Edgewood, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Edgewood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75117. The Survey maps it on the Edgewood quadrangle. 1,530 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Edgewood within Van Zandt County

On record in Edgewood

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

Edgewood grew from 1,348 to 1,530 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
20001,348
20101,441+93 (+7%)
20201,530+89 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

125 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,316 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3301
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3705
6 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMIKE GOODE
6 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-152
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3103 REKINDLE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3103 VZCR 3103
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4809 VZCR 3502

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt 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 Edgewood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Edgewood Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewood in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014HailEdgewood$90,000The Van Zandt County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail approximately one mile north of Edgewood. The hail broke windows and damaged several roofs.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$30,000Very strong thunderstorm winds damaged 3 homes, 2 barns, a gas station, and a tire store in Edgewood. At the tire store, part of the roof facade was torn of and hanging in front of the building. In addition, many tree limbs and trees were knocked down. Several carports were also damaged.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$20,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn in the Edgewood area and impaled wood from the barn into the side of a nearby manufactured home. Large tree limbs were also knocked down on the property.
April 2014HailEdgewood$20,000Baseball sized hail fell in the Edgewood Community in Van Zandt County.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$10,000An oak tree fell onto a house in Edgewood.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$10,000A house was unroofed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$5,000Roof and structural damage was reported at Edgewood from high winds.
March 1999Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$5,000A barn was destroyed and power lines were downed by thunderstorms.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Edgewood$4,000Damage occurred near the city of Edgewood, in Van Zandt County, during the afternoon of Thursday, May 11, 2017. The tornado occurred for approximately 2 miles, yet had a noncontinuous path. Damage began to the south of Edgewood, along Van Zandt County Road 3212. The damage then moved to the northeast before ending near FM 859. Two homes suffered damage, with the bulk of the damage coming from airborne debris hitting the houses. Several residents in the area reported seeing the tornado as it moved in a noncontinuous path southwest and south of Edgewood.
June 2008Flash FloodEdgewood$3,000High water was reported on several roads and vehicles were stalled in Edgewood and Fruitvale.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$2,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$1,000An estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported 3 miles north of Edgewood on SH 19.
April 2026HailEdgewood-Amateur radio reported 1 inch hail just west of Fruitvale.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-Report of tree limbs down and power outages via mPing.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-A trained spotter measured 66 mph winds with a handheld anemometer.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 MPH in the city of Edgewood, TX.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-A trained spotter measured a wind gust of 67 MPH approximately one mile north of the city of Edgewood, TX.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-Trained weather spotter reports an approximate wind gust of 65 mph.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-Trees were blown down.
February 2008HailEdgewood-no account filed
February 2001HailEdgewood-no account filed
May 1999HailEdgewood-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-no account filed
April 1995HailEdgewood-no account filed
April 1993HailEdgewood-no account filed
October 1993HailEdgewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Zandt 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
Small3.7 miles11
Elwood4.4 miles12
Fruitvale4.5 miles11
Lawrence Springs6.4 miles11
Myrtle Springs6.5 miles13
Wills Point6.6 miles10
Clifton7.8 miles14
Grand Saline9.5 miles15

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 EdgewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970916The 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 1335087. 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.