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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.

Edom within Van Zandt County

Population over time

3 figures

Edom 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.

YearPeople Change
2000322
2010375+53 (+16%)
2020339-36 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

128 since 1992

Regional 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 burning89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 145
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNNY RIDGE
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 4929
23 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 217
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 284
21 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 283

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008Thunderstorm WindEdom$85,000Hundreds 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 2002Thunderstorm WindEdom$10,000Trees and powerlines were blown down.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindEdom$2,000Power lines were blown down by high winds.
June 2009HailEdom-Nickel size hail was reported in Edom.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEdom-Trees were blown down by high winds.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindEdom-Several rural roads were flooded and parts of Interstate 20 was under water.
June 1997HailEdom-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindEdom-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEdom-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
Midway3.0 miles13
Primrose4.2 miles13
Redland5.9 miles15
Mars6.3 miles13
Ben Wheeler7.2 miles13
Owlett Green9.4 miles14
Holly Springs9.9 miles13
Martins Mill10.1 miles13

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 EdomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969690The 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.