Edom, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ben Wheeler-Edom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75756. The Survey maps it on the Brownsboro quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresEdom grew from 322 to 339 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 322 | |
| 2010 | 375 | +53 (+16%) |
| 2020 | 339 | -36 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1948 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1984 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
128 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Edom between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,374 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 145 |
| 25 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SUNNY RIDGE |
| 24 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VZCR 4929 |
| 23 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 217 |
| 22 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 284 |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 283 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edom in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2009: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edom | $85,000 | Hundreds trees were blown down throughout the county...with the most concentrated damage near Edom and Midway. Several of the trees fell on cars or houses. A damage path approximately 2 miles wide began just northeast of Edom and continued for 5 miles to the northeast...terminating near the Neches River. The vast majority of the damage resulted from a downburst...which formed as a bow echo developed along a fast moving squall line.||In addition...a total of four outbuildings were destroyed. Steel I-beams from a barn just east of Edom were carried beyond 100 feet with some aluminum sheets carried north of Highway 279 for a distance of more than 100 yards. Farther to the north...two large sheds were destroyed along CR 4807. Wind speeds in the downburst swath ranged from 60-65 MPH. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edom | $10,000 | Trees and powerlines were blown down. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edom | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Edom | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Edom. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edom | - | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edom | - | Several rural roads were flooded and parts of Interstate 20 was under water. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Edom | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edom | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edom | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Primrose | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Redland | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mars | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Ben Wheeler | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Owlett Green | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Holly Springs | 9.9 miles | 13 | |
| Martins Mill | 10.1 miles | 13 |
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 Edom | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969690 | 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 1356830. 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.






